“This is NOT a Swede”
I thought swede was a nickname for turnips. Helen Thomas is certainly as attractive as a turnip freshly pulled from the ground.
“I thought swede was a nickname for turnips.”
- A ‘swede’ is (apart from a native of Sweden) a name for a “..root vegetable that originated as a cross between the cabbage and the white turnip” (quote from Wikipedia).
It is also called ‘Rutabaga’, ‘Swedish Turnip’ and ‘Yellow Turnip’.
Frome what I’ve understood, this usage of the word ‘Swede’ is more common in British English than in AE.