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turkey-hen

noun

Etymology

Equivalent to turkey + hen; see turkey.

  1. inherited from *kan-✻
  2. inherited from *hanjō✻
  3. inherited from *hannju✻
  4. inherited from henn
  5. inherited from hen
  6. compounded as turkey-hen — “turkey + hen”

Definitions

  1. A female turkey.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for turkey-hen. 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