turken

noun
/ˈtɜː.kɪn/UK/ˈtɝ.kɪn/US

Etymology

Blend of turkey + chicken.

  1. inherited from *kukkīn
  2. inherited from *kiukīn
  3. inherited from ċicen
  4. inherited from chiken
  5. compounded as turken — “turkey + chicken

Definitions

  1. Synonym of Naked Neck (“chicken of a breed without feathers on its neck”).

    • These inoculations did not result in the production of precipitins in chickens against turken serum or in turkens against chicken serum, whereas both produced precipitins when injected into turkeys.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for turken. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA