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neep lantern en · NOUN

Meanings

1. (Scotland) A lantern made from a hollowed-out turnip, traditionally used as decoration at Halloween.
   • He always finished first in the annual Hallowe'en neep lantern competition though it was meant to be done by the pupils themselves. 2013, David M Addison, Confessions of a Banffshire Loon, page 288:
   • A third was a two-headed spectre, the upper one being a fiery head, that bore a suspicious resemblance to a neep lantern, and his body, or what should have been his body, was wrapped in a while sheet. 1873, Thomas Watson, Homely Pearls at Random Strung, page 270:
   • A neep lantern bobbing by the end of the palisade, near the Smith house, where a clutch of bairns stood in the footpath waiting for him. 2003, Heather Spears, The Flourish, page 347:

Forms

Relateds

jack-o'-lantern

Synonyms

tumshie lantern