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turkey

noun
/ˈtɜːki/UK/ˈtɝki/US/ˈtøːki/

Etymology

From Middle English Turkye, from Anglo-Norman Turkye, Medieval Latin Turcia, from Turcus (“Turk”), from Byzantine Greek Τοῦρκος (Toûrkos), from Classical Persian تُرْک (turk), from Middle Persian [script needed] (twlk' /⁠turk⁠/), from Old Turkic 𐱅𐰇𐰼𐰜 (t²ür²k̥). By surface analysis, Turke + -y.

  1. derived from 𐱅𐰇𐰼𐰜
  2. derived from تُرْک
  3. derived from Τοῦρκος
  4. derived from Turcia
  5. derived from Turkye
  6. inherited from Turkye

Definitions

  1. The guinea fowl (family Numididae).

  2. A bird in the genus Meleagris with a fan-shaped tail and wattled neck.

  3. The flesh or meat of this bird eaten as food.

    • All week after Thanksgiving, I had turkey sandwiches for lunch.
  4. ›+ 14 more definitions

    1. With a distinguishing word

      With a distinguishing word: a bird resembling the Meleagris gallopavo (for example, the brush turkey or bush turkey (Alectura lathami), and the water turkey (Anhinga anhinga)).

    2. An act of throwing three strikes in a row.

    3. A patient feigning symptoms

      A patient feigning symptoms; a person faking illness or injury; a malingerer.

      • Mumford (1970) noted that the terms ‘crock’, ‘gomer’, and ‘turkey’, were sometimes utilized by interns to designate different types of undesirable patients, and sometimes used synonymously.

    4. A pack carried by a lumberman

      A pack carried by a lumberman; a bindle; also, a large travel bag, a suitcase.

    5. A failure.

      • That film was a turkey.

    6. A foolish or inept person.

      • The turkey cut in front of me and then berated me for running into him.

    7. A prostitute.

      • Shorty think she slick, but everybody know she a turkey.

    8. A country located in Eastern Thrace in Southeastern Europe and Anatolia in West Asia.…

      A country located in Eastern Thrace in Southeastern Europe and Anatolia in West Asia. Official name: Republic of Türkiye. Capital: Ankara.

      • This isn’t the first time she has hidden a weight-loss management attempt from her husband. “I went to Turkey and had a gastric balloon, and I didn’t tell anyone, not even him,” she says.

    9. Synonym of Ottoman Empire, a former empire in Europe, Asia, Africa. Capital

      Synonym of Ottoman Empire, a former empire in Europe, Asia, Africa. Capital: Istanbul.

    10. A city in Hall County, Texas, United States.

    11. Synonym of Turkey red (“a vibrant red dye or its color”).

    12. Synonym of Turkey blue (“a deep indigo dye or its color”).

    13. Synonym of Turkey red (“dyed or colored Turkey red”).

    14. Synonym of Turkey blue (“dyed or colored Turkey blue”).

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Derived

Albuquerque turkey, Australian brushturkey, Australian turkey, brush turkey, brush-turkey, bush turkey, Californian turkey, Cape Cod turkey, churkey, cold turkey, hand turkey, jive turkey, like turkeys voting for Christmas, like turkeys voting for an early Christmas, ocellated turkey, plains turkey, poor as Job's turkey, scrub turkey, stuffed like a turkey, talk turkey, Taunton turkey, turducken, turken, turkey bacon, turkey berry, turkey bowl, turkey bowling, turkey bush, turkey buzzard, turkey-chick, turkey-cock, turkey cock, turkey coma, turkey corn, Turkey Creek, Turkey Day, turkey drop, turkey dropping, turkey frill, turkey gobbler · +22 more

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for turkey. 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