Swedish turnip, the Purple-top.
Swedish turnip, the Purple-top. See Baggie, sb.3
Joseph Wright, English Dialect Dictionary (1898–1905)
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UK and Irish slang — Cockney, Scouse, Geordie, Yorkshire, Glaswegian, Brummie, Welsh, West Country, plus Irish English. Centuries of regional dialects feeding into modern British and Irish street talk.
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(UK, US, dialect) A turnip.
(now, North America) The swede, or Swedish turnip; the European plant var. napobrassica.
A British and American dialect word for a turnip. Used mainly in rural or working-class speech, 'bagie' is one of those old-school regional terms that never made it to the mainstream but survived in local mouths for generations. If your nan called the Sunday roast veg a bagie and you had no idea what she meant, now you do.
(Scotland, Ireland, Northern England, Cornwall, Atlantic Canada, Manitoba) The yellow root of a related plant, the swede or .
(chiefly, Scotland) The swede (rutabaga); turnip.