Crossword-Solution: NEPS 4 letters, 10 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 6

Then, I like Peggy; Neps is fond of me; Peggy likes Pate; and Patie's bauld and slee, And looes sweet Meg; but Neps I downa see.

The old name for it was _nœp_, _nep_, or _neps_, which was only the English form of the Latin _napus_, while Turnip is the corruption of _terræ napus_, but when the first syllable was added I do not know.

Minor contrasts are present too, in the faithfulness of Patie to Peggy, as compared with the faithlessness of Bauldy to Neps.

Her een the clearest blob of dew out-shines, The lily in her breast its beauty tines; Her legs, her arms, her cheeks, her mouth, her een, Will be my deid'-- The existence of superstition among the Scottish peasantry, a state of things lasting until well on into last century, is also well brought out in Bauldy's soliloquy, when he refers to Mausy, 'a witch that for sma' price, can cast her cantrips, and gie me advice.' Mause, meaning to read the faithless lover of Neps a lesson, consents to help him.

The severe treatment of the cotton during scutching adds to the number of broken and short fibres, and also increases the neps.