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单词 turkey
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Turkeyn.1

Brit. /ˈtəːki/, U.S. /ˈtərki/
Forms: Also Middle English torke, 1500s–1600s Turkie, 1500s–1700s Turky, (Middle English–1600s Turkye, 1500s torkey, Turquey, Turkeye, 1600s Tyrkye).
Etymology: = French Turquie , medieval Latin Turchia , Turquia , < Turc , Turcus , Turk n.1: compare Germānus, Germānia, Germany; Indus, India.
1. The land of the Turks, ‘Turkey in Asia’ and ‘Turkey in Europe’; formerly sometimes Turkestan or Tartary.
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c1369 G. Chaucer Bk. Duchesse 1026 Ne sende men in-to Walakye,..To Alisaundre, ne in-to Turkye.
c1485 Digby Myst. (1882) iii. 1435 Þer is þe lond of torke.
a1513 W. Dunbar Ballat Abbot of Tungland in Poems (1998) I. 58 A fedrem on he tuke..in Turky for to fle.
1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Hiiiv/2 Turkie, Tartaria.
1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §49 Rice is in Turky..most fed upon.
1719 W. Wood Surv. Trade (ed. 2) 180 The Turkey Company..have Factories and Houses in Turkey.
1892 Chamb. Encycl. X. 329 Turkey or the Ottoman Empire comprises the wide but heterogeneous territories really or nominally subject to the Osmânlî sultan, in Europe, Asia, and Africa.
†2. Short for
a. Turkey stone n., the turquoise.
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the world > the earth > minerals > types of mineral > phosphates > [noun] > hydrous aluminium or copper
turquoise1398
Turkey1487
Turkish stone1577
Turkey stone1607
turquoise stone1796
agaphite1819
chalchuite1843
henwoodite1876
society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > gem or precious stone > turquoise > [noun]
turquoise1398
Turkey1487
Turkish stone1577
Turkey stone1607
turquoise stone1796
1487 in S. Young Ann. Barber-surgeons London (1890) 530 I bequeath to my mother my golde ringe which hath in it a stone called a Turkey.
1509 S. Hawes Pastime of Pleasure (1845) xxxviii. 197 Of the mervaylous rofe set full of rubyes, And tynst with saphers and many turkeys.
1584 R. Greene Morando sig. Biiiv The Turky hauing lost his culler is of no value.
1589 E. Hogan in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations i. 158 A short dagger..set with 200. stones, rubies, and turkies.
1592 in W. Greenwell Wills & Inventories Registry Durham (1860) II. 204 To my daughter Gee my Turkey ringe.
1595 in W. Greenwell Wills & Inventories Registry Durham (1860) II. 168 My goulde ringe wherein my turkie is.
1615 G. Sandys Relation of Journey 221 They haue [in Cyprus]..diuerse kinds of precious stones of inferiour value, amongst which the emerald, and the turky.
a1630 F. Moryson in Shakespeare's Europe (1903) iv. i. 335 Three Ringes on his fingers, a Dyamond, a Turky, and a Ruby.
1680 R. Morden Geogr. Rectified (1685) 358 There are Mines of..divers Kinds of precious Stones, viz. the Emerald and the Turky.
b. Turkey horse (cf. Turki adj. and n.).
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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > horse defined by breed > [noun] > Turkish
Turk1623
Turkey1678
Turki1782
1678 Extracts Govt. Rec. Fort St. George 6 Mar. Four horses bought for the Company—One young Arab, One old Turkey [etc.].
c. Turkey leather n. at Compounds 3.
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society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > leather > [noun] > tanned leather > specific
leatherc1230
whitleather1384
tawc1562
Turkey leather1655
Turkey1715
chrome leather1882
chrome-tanned leather1882
society > communication > book > manufacture or production of books > book-binding > bookbinding equipment > [noun] > materials > leather
roan1383
Turkey leather1655
sheep1705
Turkey1715
Russia1724
rough calf1730
law1738
mottled calf1857
pastegrain1880
Rutland1894
Cambridge calf1895
Niger morocco1898
Niger1946
1715 T. Hearne Remarks & Coll. (1901) V. 66 One in large paper, bound in Turkey.
1721 A. Ramsay Concl. 4 Dear, vent'rous book..In gilded Turkey clad.
1835 J. R. Smith's Catal. Bks. Nov. 8/2 Life of the Famous Comedian, Joe Hayns,..in old turkey, very scarce.

Compounds

General attributive.
C1. Simple attributive; now mostly superseded by Turkish adj. and n., except in particular connections, as in Turkey Company, Turkey merchant.
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a1529 J. Skelton Magnyfycence (?1530) sig. Eiv Porcenya the prowde prouoste of turky lande.
1543 in Hist. MSS Comm.: MSS Duke of Rutland (1905) IV. 346 in Parl. Papers (Cd. 2606) LXIII. 301 v long table carpettes of Turky makyng, j fote carpet of Turky makyng.
1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VIII f. vjv Appareled after Turkey fashion.
1585 T. Washington tr. N. de Nicolay Nauigations Turkie iv. xiii. 126 b A fair Turkie horse.
1585 T. Washington tr. N. de Nicolay Nauigations Turkie iv. xvi. 130 b [They] are not permitted to print the Turkie or Arabian tongue.
1651 J. Howell S.P.Q.V. 134 They had taken some Turky Vessells in the Venetian Seas.
1690 J. Child Disc. Trade iii. 88 The Turkey Company do maintain an Embassador and two Consuls.
1818 Ld. Byron Beppo xciii. 43 He..pass'd for a true Turkey-merchant.
1845 B. Disraeli Sybil I. ii. vi. 171 A couple of centuries ago, a Turkey merchant was the great creator of wealth.
C2.
a. In names of things of actual or supposed Turkish or Levantine origin.
Turkey apricot n.
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1681 T. Langford Plain Instr. Fruit-trees xiv. 123 Amongst Apricocks..The Turkey is much commended.
1754 P. Miller Gardeners Dict. (ed. 4) I. sig. Iv/1 The Turky Apricot is yet larger..and of a globular Figure; the Fruit turns to a deeper Colour.
Turkey gall n.
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1874 F. A. Flückiger & D. Hanbury Pharmacographia 536 Gallæ Halepenses, Gallæ Turcicæ; Galls, Nutgalls, Oak Galls, Aleppo or Turkey Galls.
Turkey myrrh n.
Turkey parsley n.
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1690 in Thanes of Cawdor (Spalding Club) 353 Ane unce of Turkie persell.
Turkey plum n.
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1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry ii. f. 87 Quinces, Pomegranates, & Turky Plomes.
1664 J. Evelyn Kalendarium Hortense 72 in Sylva Plums..Great Anthony, Turkey Plum.
Turkey sponge n.
Turkey tobacco n.
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1812 J. Smyth Pract. of Customs ii. 219 Turkey Tobacco may be imported in small packages within any hogshead.
Turkey wood n.
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1545 R. Ascham Toxophilus ii. f. 12 Steles [of arrows] be made of dyuerse woodes..as..Turkie wood [etc.].
b. Of Turkish workmanship or manufacture, or made in imitation of this.
Turkey bow n.
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1572 in A. Feuillerat Documents Office of Revels Queen Elizabeth (1908) 157 One Turky Bowe and iii arrowes.
1578 in A. Feuillerat Documents Office of Revels Queen Elizabeth (1908) 292 vii Turkie Bowes at xiid the peece.
Turkey coverlet n.
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1585 T. Washington tr. N. de Nicolay Nauigations Turkie ii. v. 35 Turkie couerlettes.
Turkey cushion n.
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a1616 W. Shakespeare Taming of Shrew (1623) ii. i. 349 Fine Linnen, Turky cushions bost with pearle. View more context for this quotation
1684 in Archæol. Cambr., Orig. Doc. (1877) 8 Turky cushions.
Turkey garter n.
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1650 in F. P. Verney & M. M. Verney Mem. Verney Family 17th Cent. (1907) I. 469 A paire of Scarletsilk stockings, with a paire of Turkey garters to them.
Turkey grogram n.
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1604 Bp. W. Barlow Summe Conf. at Hampton Court P ij These are Cartwrightes Schollers, Scismatikes,..; you may know them by their Turkie gownes, and silke Turky Grogorum.
Turkey morocco n.
Turkey opium n.
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1819 A. Rees Cycl. XXV. at Opium Turkey Opium.
1890 J. S. Billings National Med. Dict. II Turkey opium, the official opium of the pharmacopœias, produced in Asia Minor, and shipped from Turkish ports.
Turkey satin n.
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1545 Rates Custome House sig. cviij Turky satten the pece.
1551 J. Williams Acct. Monastic Treasures (1836) 51 A cope..with an orpheres of redde Turquey satten.
Turkey slipper n.
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1760 W. J. Mickle Nae Luck aboot the House iv My Turkey slippers maun gae on, My stockings pearly blue.
Turkey tapestry n.
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1645 J. Howell Epistolæ Ho-elianæ vi. xxvii. 41 The wrong-side of a Turky Tapistry.
Turkey towel n.
C3.
Turkey alder n. Alnus oblongata Willd.
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the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > tree or shrub groups > birch and allies > [noun] > alder and allies
aldereOE
alderna1325
prick tree1551
black alder1578
aln1589
sporkenwood1599
alder1648
alder buckthorn?1742
orl1747
alder1755
arn1791
Turkey alder1822
Oregon alder1842
berry alder1863
tag alder1891
1822 S. Clarke Hortus Anglicus II. 468 A[lnus] Oblongata. Turkey Alder. Leaves elliptic, bluntish, glutinous.
† Turkey balm n. Obsolete Dracocephalum Moldavica Linn.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > labiate plant or plants > [noun] > dragon's head
Turkey balm1688
dragon's head1753
Moldavian balm1760
dracocephalum1840
Moldavian mint1892
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. 72/1 The Turky Balm have the flowers growing on the top of the branch spire-like.
Turkeybean n. ? the scarlet runner, Phaseolus multiflorus.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > pulses or plants producing pulses > [noun] > bean > scarlet runner bean or plant
Turkeybean1690
scarlet-bean1731
runner1772
scarlet runner1786
the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > vegetables > pulse > [noun] > bean > scarlet runner bean
Turkeybean1690
scarlet-bean1731
scarlet runner1786
1690 in Thanes of Cawdor (Spalding Club) 353 Half pd. of Turkie benes.
1806 R. Southey Let. to W. Taylor in Pearson's Catal. (1900) 76 My acorn will continue to grow when his Turkey bean shall have withered.
Turkey berry n. the fruit of species of Rhamnus, used in dyeing; cf. Persian berry n. at Persian n. and adj. Compounds 1b; see also turkey n.2 Compounds 1.
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1841 Penny Cycl. XIX. 445/1 The berries of several species of Rhamnus..under the name of French, Turkey, and Persian berries.
Turkey blue n. a dye: see quot.
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the world > matter > colour > named colours > blue or blueness > blue colouring matter > [noun] > dyes and dyestuffs > other dyes
stone-blue1675
starch blue1742
Saxon blue1753
fig-blue1786
chemic1792
Turkey blue1815
Paris blue1835
Saxony blue1857
soluble blue1879
methylene blue1882
indoin1884
phenylene blue1884
indamine1888
Nile blue1888
gallamine blue1889
neutral blue1889
chrome-blue1892
toluidine blue1898
indanthrene1901
Saxe blue1905
trypan blue1911
mandarin blue1912
1815 J. Smith Panorama Sci. & Art II. 541 To dye Silk Blue... For the Turkey blue, which is the deepest, a very strong archil bath is first used.
Turkey chair n. (a) a chair of Turkish make; (b) the sphenoid bone (of the horse); also Turkey-chair bone.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > body or parts of horse > [noun] > head > bone or vein of
plate vein1566
Turkey-chair bone1683
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > seat > chair > [noun] > other chairs
farthingale chair1552
side chair1582
high chair1609
scroll chair1614
Turkey chair1683
curule chair1695
reading chair1745
rush-bottom1754
conversation-chair1793
Windsor tub1800
Trafalgar chair1808
beehive-chair1816
nursing chair1826
Hitchcockc1828
toilet seat1829
kangaroo1834
prie-dieu1838
tub-chair1839
barrel-chair1850
Cromwell chair1868
office chair1874
swivel-chair1885
steamer-chair1886
suggan chair1888
lawn chair1895
saddle seat1895
Bombay chair1896
veranda-chair1902
X chair1904
Yorkshire chair1906
three legs and a swinger1916
saddlebag1919
riempie stool1933
gaspipe chair1934
slipper chair1938
Eames chair1946
contour chair1948
sling-back1948
sling chair1957
booster chair1960
booster seat1967
beanbag1969
sack chair1970
papasan1980
Muskoka chair1987
1683 A. Snape Anat. Horse iii. viii. 122 The Bone called the Turkey chair. [Cf. v. iv. 204 The Sphenoides, or Wedge-like Bone..hath several Processes, of which..the internal are four, standing out like four feet of a Table or Chair, which..form the Sella Turcica.]
1683 A. Snape Anat. Horse iii. ix. 124 Near the side of the Turky-chair-bone they are inoculated with the second or greater branches of the fifth pair.
1684 in Archæol. Cambr., Orig. Doc. (1877) 7 In the greate Parlour..twelve turky chaires one table and Carpett.
Turkey colour n. see quot.
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the world > matter > colour > named colours > blue or blueness > [noun] > light blue
watchetc1405
vessey colour1562
fesse1587
Venice blue1598
Turkey colour1661
powder blue1752
Eton blue1851
ice-blue1851
periwinkle blue1852
Cambridge blue1858
baby blue1861
starch blue1875
duck's egg1876
pervenche1876
opal blue1881
periwinkle1895
pervenche blue1898
harebell blue1909
horizon-blue1919
Nattier blue1923
zircon blue1928
Mary blue1943
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Couleur Turquine, a right blue, or Venice blue.
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues at Turc Couleur Turque, azure.]
1661 T. Blount Peacham's Compl. Gentleman (new ed.) xiv. 156 Turkie colour, i.e. Venice blew, or as others will have it, red.
Turkey corn n. an old name for Indian corn.
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the world > food and drink > food > corn, cereals, or grain > [noun] > maize
maizea1544
Turkey corn1597
turkey wheat1598
Indian corn1604
Indian1641
Turkish wheat1670
mealies1801
kanga1843
the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > cereal, corn, or grain > [noun] > maize
Turkey corn1597
turkey wheat1598
Indian corn1604
Indian1641
Turkish wheat1670
mealies1801
kanga1843
1597 J. Gerard Herball i. 74 Of Turkie cornes there be diuers sorts.
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Mays,..Turkie corne, Turkie wheat.
1865 H. Wedgwood Dict. Eng. Etymol. (at cited word) It is singular that a bird which came from America should have been considered as a Turkey fowl, but the same is the case with maize, which was called Turkey corn or Turkey wheat, French bled de Turquie.
Turkey cress n. see quot.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Cruciferae (crucifers) > [noun] > other crucifers
Raphanusa1398
watercress?a1450
boor's mustard1548
dish-mustard1548
rocket1548
treacle mustard1548
heal-dog1551
Thlaspi1562
candy mustard1597
Grecian mustard1597
Italian rocket1597
knave's mustard1597
madwort1597
mithridate mustard1597
moonwort1597
mithridate1605
wall-rocket1611
broom-wort1614
candytuft1629
draba1629
Turkey cress1633
rock cress1650
shepherd's cress1713
pennycress1714
alyssum1731
arabis1756
tower mustard1760
faverel1770
molewort1770
stinkweed1793
wall cabbage1796
wall-cress1796
awl-wort1797
sickle-pod1846
Kerguelen cabbage1847
sun cress1848
sand rocket1854
wall mustard1904
buckler-mustard-
tower-cress-
1633 T. Johnson Gerard's Herball (new ed.) ii. 274 Turkie Cresses..is iudged to be the Arabis, or Draba of the Ancients.
Turkey earth n. = Turkey cress n.
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the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > clay > [noun] > bole > type of
terra chia1615
Turkey earth1748
yellow earth1794
rock soap1803
1748 J. Hill Gen. Nat. Hist. I. 14 Friable greyish red Bole, called Turky Earth.
Turkey fig n. the common fig, Ficus carica; in Australia, the Indian fig or prickly pear, Opuntia.
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the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > fruit or a fruit > other fruits > [noun]
tamarind1539
zizypha1546
guava1555
tuna1555
turpentine1562
mango1582
mammee1587
durian1588
lychee1588
sapota1589
fritter1591
mangosteen1598
custard apple1648
longan1655
mammee sapota1657
mammee apple1683
breadfruit1697
coco-plum1699
rambutan1707
pawpaw1709
locust bean1731
sapodilla1750
cherimoya1758
wild lime1767
Otaheite apple1777
narra1779
langsat1783
rose apple1790
cinnamon apple1796
sapota plum1797
bhindi1809
salak1820
gingerbread plum1824
geebung1827
loquat1829
sapodilla plum1830
sage-apple1832
kangaroo-apple1834
karaka-fruit1834
quandong1836
mombin1837
terap1839
zapote1842
tamarind plum1846
prairie pea1848
Barbados-cherry1858
kei-apple1859
Natal plum1859
bullock's heart1866
guava-apple1866
Sierra Leone peach1866
Turkey fig1866
marula1877
scarlet banana1885
Suriname cherry1895
feijoa1898
pear apple1898
ume1918
pepino1922
Chinese gooseberry1925
num-num1926
acerola1954
the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > fruit or a fruit > fig > [noun] > types of
figs of Pharaoh?c1225
fig-dote1481
figling1612
fig-flower1719
tap-figsc1860
Turkey fig1866
adam's fig1907
the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular types of fruit > [noun] > tropical exotic fruit > fig
fig?c1225
figo1589
porphyritis1706
Marseilles1725
Turkey fig1866
1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. I. 492/1 Turkey figs are imported from Smyrna.
1888 Antipodean Notes 12 The ‘Turkey fig’ [in Adelaide] is about four times the size of a well-grown English fig.
Turkey gilliflower n. the French and the African marigold.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > composite flowers > marigold > French marigold
French marigold1548
velvet-flower1548
marigold1578
Turkey gilliflower1578
1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball ii. xxv. 176 Of Turkie or Aphrican Gilofers. We do call this floure Turkie Gillofers, and French Marygoldes.
† Turkey gown n. Obsolete
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > loose clothing > robe or gown > types of > other
stolec950
paramentc1385
stolea1387
vestmentc1386
chimer1487
shemewe1517
parliament1537
Turkey gown1558
slop1570
blue gown1578
dolman1585
palliament1593
synthesis1606
vest1613
paramentoa1640
brandenburgh1676
khilat1684
spagnoleta1685
sultanea1685
sultana1693
garter-robes1702
under-robe1725
wrapper1725
stola1728
talar1738
negligée1755
jama1776
dust-gown1802
yukata1822
manga1824
gandoura1851
pheran1851
riga1851
shamma1862
choga1869
kanzu1870
kimono1886
holoku1893
mammy-cloth1952
1558 in A. Feuillerat Documents Office of Revels Queen Elizabeth (1908) 20 vi longe streighte turkye gounes of redd cloth.
1604 Bp. W. Barlow Summe Conf. at Hampton Court ii. 27 They [Puritan divines] appeared before his Maiestie in Turky gownes, not in their Scholastical habites, sorting to their degrees.
† Turkey gruel n. Obsolete apparently a contemptuous description of coffee.
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the world > food and drink > drink > coffee > [noun]
coffee1598
coffee-drink1659
syrup of soot1663
ninny-broth1696
Turkey gruel1705
Java1805
caffè1852
mud1855
Everton toffee1857
go-juice1923
joe1941
decaf1956
1705 E. Ward Hudibras Redivivus I. ii. 19 Some sucking Smoak from Indian Fuel, And others sipping Turky Gruel.
Turkey gum n. see quot.
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the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines of specific form > gums and viscid products > [noun] > other gums
hog gum1725
Turkey gum1890
1890 J. S. Billings National Med. Dict. II Turkey gum, the generic name applied to the various species of Egyptian gums.
† Turkey hirse n. Obsolete = Turkey millet at millet n.1 2.
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the world > food and drink > food > corn, cereals, or grain > [noun] > millet
millet?a1425
mill-seed1548
millet seed1567
couscous1596
dew-grass1597
Turkey hirse1597
Turkey mill1597
Turkey millet1597
milly1600
espauta1682
durra1803
Negro-corn1858
dari1892
the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > cereal, corn, or grain > [noun] > millet > Indian millet
Turkey hirse1597
Turkey mill1597
Turkey millet1597
Negro-corn1858
1597 J. Gerard Herball i. 77 [Sorghum] is called..Turkie Mill or Turkie Hirsse.
Turkey hone n. = Turkey stone n. 2.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > shaping tools or equipment > [noun] > sharpening > whetstone
whetstonec725
hone-stone1393
filourc1400
hone1440
rub1502
rubber1553
knife-stone1571
stone1578
oilstone1585
block1592
oil whetstone1601
greenstone1668
scythe-stone1688
water stone1703
sharping-stone1714
Scotch stone1766
honer1780
Turkey hone1794
polishing-slate1801
burr1816
Turkey stone1816
German hone1817
Arkansas1869
rag1877
rock1889
slipstone1927
the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > stone > [noun] > hard stone > whetstone
whetstone1578
wolf-stone1640
hone1688
Water of Ayr stone1793
novaculite1794
Turkey hone1794
Turkey stone1816
whet-slate1839
1794 R. Kirwan Elements Mineral. (ed. 2) I. 238 Novaculite. Turkey hone.
1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 1141 Whet-slate, or Turkey hone, is a slaty rock, containing a great proportion of quartz.
1843 Penny Cycl. XXV. 410/2 Turkey-hone..was first brought to Europe from the Levant.
Turkey leather n. leather tawed with oil, the hair side not being removed until after the tawing.
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society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > leather > [noun] > tanned leather > specific
leatherc1230
whitleather1384
tawc1562
Turkey leather1655
Turkey1715
chrome leather1882
chrome-tanned leather1882
society > communication > book > manufacture or production of books > book-binding > bookbinding equipment > [noun] > materials > leather
roan1383
Turkey leather1655
sheep1705
Turkey1715
Russia1724
rough calf1730
law1738
mottled calf1857
pastegrain1880
Rutland1894
Cambridge calf1895
Niger morocco1898
Niger1946
1655–6 A. Wood Life Mar. (1891) I. 200 A very fair copie of them [sermons] bound in blew Turkey-leather.
1821 W. Scott Kenilworth I. v. 97 A small dagger..which hung in his Turkey-leather sword-belt.
1843 Penny Cycl. XXV. 408/1 The so-called Turkey leather is made in England.
Turkey-leathered adj. bound in Turkey leather.
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1710 London Gaz. No. 4521/4 A small Turkey Leather'd Bible.
Turkey †mill n. = Turkey millet n.
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the world > food and drink > food > corn, cereals, or grain > [noun] > millet
millet?a1425
mill-seed1548
millet seed1567
couscous1596
dew-grass1597
Turkey hirse1597
Turkey mill1597
Turkey millet1597
milly1600
espauta1682
durra1803
Negro-corn1858
dari1892
the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > cereal, corn, or grain > [noun] > millet > Indian millet
Turkey hirse1597
Turkey mill1597
Turkey millet1597
Negro-corn1858
1597Turkey mill [see Turkey hirse n.].
Turkey millet n. Sorghum vulgare: see millet n.1 2.
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the world > food and drink > food > corn, cereals, or grain > [noun] > millet
millet?a1425
mill-seed1548
millet seed1567
couscous1596
dew-grass1597
Turkey hirse1597
Turkey mill1597
Turkey millet1597
milly1600
espauta1682
durra1803
Negro-corn1858
dari1892
the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > cereal, corn, or grain > [noun] > millet > Indian millet
Turkey hirse1597
Turkey mill1597
Turkey millet1597
Negro-corn1858
1597 J. Gerard Herball i. 77 Tvrkie Millet is a stranger in England.
1640 J. Parkinson Theatrum Botanicum 1137 The last Turkie or Indian Millet.
Turkey oak n. the mossy-cup oak of southern Europe; the name is also given in America to Q. Catesbæi.
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1813 J. M. Good et al. Pantologia at Quercus Q. cerris. Turkey oak... South of Europe.
1831 On Planting (Libr. Useful Knowl.) viii. 115/1 The Turkey oak, Quercus cerris, was introduced into England in 1739.
1841 Penny Cycl. XIX. 213/2 The timber of the Turkey oak is beautifully mottled, in consequence of the abundance of its silver grain.
1842 J. B. Fraser Mesopot. & Assyria xv. 353 The forest-trees are for the most part the following:—..Quercus cerris..Turkey oak.
Turkey rhubarb n. medicinal rhubarb n. 1: see quot. 1866.
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the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > cleansing or expelling medicines > [noun] > purgative > plant-derived
scammonyc1000
lign-aloesc1374
hiera picra1379
rhubarbc1390
aloea1398
cassia fistulaa1398
coloquintidaa1398
senec1400
turpethc1400
coloquintc1420
diagrydium1436
lignum aloes1525
rhabarbarum1533
xylaloes1540
manna1541
scilla1548
hyera?1550
emblic1555
diasenna1562
colocynth1565
tragonce1575
pinyon1577
mechoacan1587
lignum aquilae1600
gamboge1615
dragon-root1621
helleborism1621
diaprune1625
alhandal1630
makinboy1652
luskard1653
diagrydiate1657
physic nut1657
aloetic1661
scammoniate1665
jalap1675
aloedary1683
coloquinto1683
Briançon manna1688
liquorice powder1712
coloquintid1732
castor oil1746
senna-tea1752
higry pigry1773
Turkey rhubarb1789
argel1803
hickery-pickery1816
cathartin1823
aloin1828
croton oil1829
jalapin1832
syrmaea1833
bryonin1836
gambogic acid1837
Podophyllum1844
podophyllin1851
geropiga1852
hicra picra1857
Montpellier turpeth1860
picra1860
tallicoona oil1866
scammonin1868
pharbitisin1873
cascara sagrada1879
senna-draught1879
tambor-oil1890
syrup of figs1897
pharbitin1899
the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medical preparations of specific origin > medicine composed of a plant > [noun] > plant used in medicine > root > specific roots
zedoaryOE
madderOE
setwall?c1225
liquoricec1275
rhubarba1400
ireosc1400
liquorice-racec1400
sage root14..
maple root1523
liquorice-root1530
rhabarbarum1533
orris1545
turmeric1545
cypressc1550
pyrethrum1562
china1582
China root1588
orris root1598
red squill1629
ginseng1654
ague root1676
poke root1687
cassumunar1693
nettle root1707
valerian root1747
belly-ache-root1775
Indian root1775
Turkey rhubarb1789
sumbul1791
serpentaria1803
Honduras sarsaparilla1818
serpentary1837
sang1843
savanilla1856
manaca1866
gelsemium1875
sanguinaria1875
Indian turmeric1890
1789 Trans. Soc. Arts l. 94 Commonly sold in the shops under the name of Turkey or Russian Rhubarb.
1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. II. 971/2 What is known..as the best Turkey Rhubarb in reality comes from China through Russia... It was formerly imported from Natolia, whence the name Turkey Rhubarb.
Turkey rug n. = Turkish rug n. at Turkish adj. and n. Compounds 2b.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > floor-covering > [noun] > rug > Turkish
Smyrna rug1881
Turkey rug1881
Kulahc1882
Kir-Shehr1900
Mudjur1913
1881 C. C. Harrison Woman's Handiwork Mod. Homes iii. 143 The hardwood floors are stained dark, with Turkey rugs.
1920 F. G. Ellerton Let. 25 Feb. in J. Bailey Lett. & Diaries (1935) 201 Now stamp up and down your Turkey rugs.
Turkey slate n. = Turkey stone n. 2 (Ogilvie 1882).
Turkey sponge n. a superior grade of commercial sponge from the Mediterranean and Adriatic.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > wiping > [noun] > sponging > sponge
spongec1000
water sponge1497
mop1838
sponge cloth1862
Turkey sponge1902
1902 D. Salomons in A. C. Harmsworth et al. Motors & Motor-driving (Badminton Libr. of Sports & Pastimes) vi. 94 A large Turkey sponge is best for cleaning the body and wheels of the car.
1968 Canad. Antiques Collector Nov. 21/1 A fine piece of Turkey sponge was soaked in this mixture [sc. aromatic vinegar] and enclosed in a small container called a vinegar box or vinaigrette.
† Turkey stool n. Obsolete cf. Turkey chair n. (a).
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > seat > stool > [noun] > other stools
standing stool1578
Turkey stool1640
back-stool1762
bar-stool1922
riempie stool1933
step-stool1966
1640 Inv. in Nicholson Hist. & Trad. Tales (1843) 267 A Turky stule and a rich work stule.
Turkey twill n. see quot. 1904. See also Turkey carpet n., Turkey red n., Turkey stone n., turkey wheat n., Turkey work n.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric made from specific material > cotton > [noun] > twilled
hickory1750
satin jean1812
beaverteen1827
blue jean1857
denim1864
workhouse sheeting1875
Bolton sheeting1880
Turkey twill1904
regatta1910
chino1943
regatta fabric1962
Bolton twill1967
1904 Woollen Draper's Terms in Tailor & Cutter 480/1 Turkey Twill, a soft make of cotton twill, usually red, but by no means confined to that colour.
1912 D. Crawford Thinking Black xiv. 271 Four cut-throats, with red turkey-twill turbans.

Derivatives

Hence (nonce-words).
ˈTurkeydom n. the realm or empire of the Turks.
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1850 W. M. Thackeray Pendennis II. xv. 143 We will cut off all the heads in Christendom or Turkeydom rather than that.
† Turkeyed adj. /ˈtɜːkɪd/ [-ed suffix2] Obsolete Turkish, Turk-like, Turkified.
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1600 M. Sutcliffe Briefe Refut. Calumnious Relation Conf. Pref. sig. Bb7, in Briefe Replie to Libel His owne friendes charge him with Turkeied machiauelisme.
ˈTurkeyism n. belief in Turkey, Turkish political sympathies.
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society > society and the community > social attitudes > patriotism > nationalism > [noun] > other spec.
Portugalism1676
pan-Slavism1844
Panhellenism1849
pan-Slavonism1850
Hellenism1854
Illyrism1854
Magyarism1862
pan-Celticism1863
Turkeyism1877
pan-Americanism1889
Nipponism1899
New Zealandism1921
Black Nationalism1927
Yiddishism1932
1877 Gladstone in Daily News 13 Nov. 6 This distinguished man, who represents what I have called Turkeyism, in his speech at the Guildhall drops entirely the ‘integrity’ of the Turkish empire.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

turkeyn.2

Brit. /ˈtəːki/, U.S. /ˈtərki/
Forms: Also 1500s–1600s turkie, 1500s–1700s turky. Plural turkeys, formerly turkies.
Etymology: Short for turkey-cock n., turkey-hen n., apparently applied originally to the Guinea-fowl, a native of Africa, with which the American turkey was at first confounded: see turkey-cock n.
†1. The Guinea-fowl. Obsolete.
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the world > animals > birds > order Galliformes (fowls) > [noun] > family Numididae > member of (guinea-fowl)
guinea-hen1599
Guinea1620
turkey1655
pintado1666
chequer-bird1745
tamis-bird1774
guinea fowl1788
Guinea bird1792
galeeny1796
come-back1811
tarentaal1827
tompot1891
the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > fowls > [noun] > guinea-fowl
turkey-hen1552
turkey-cock1577
guinea-hen1578
turkey1655
1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry i. f. 12v Here I keepe..Geese, Duckes, Peacocks, Turkicockes, and other poultry.
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. xi. xxxvii. 331 The Ginnie or Turkie Cockes and Hens.]
1655 T. Moffett & C. Bennet Healths Improvem. x. 84 They were first brought from Numidia into Turky and thence to Europe, whereupon they were called Turkies.
2.
a. In current use: A well-known large gallinaceous bird of the Linnæan genus Meleagris, the species of which are all American; esp. M. gallopāvo, which was found domesticated in Mexico at the discovery of that country in 1518, and was soon after introduced into Europe, and is now valued as a table fowl in numerous countries.Two races of this, which have been variously regarded as sub-species or species, are found wild, of which one, the Northern wild turkey, which has been variously distinguished as americana, sylvestris, and fera, is a native of the eastern half of the continent, from parts of Canada and the Missouri region to Texas, where it is succeeded by M. mexicana, the Mexican wild turkey. As in the case of many long-domesticated animals, it is doubtful from which of these wild types the domestic turkey has arisen, but the fact that the latter was domesticated in Mexico, and that the northern race shows less adaptability to domestication, favours the opinion that M. mexicana was the source. Some however hold that there may have been two domestic breeds, represented in England by the Norfolk and the Cambridgeshire breeds, or that at least mixture with americana has taken place. Another species, M. ocellata, which inhabits Guatemala, is smaller and much more beautiful; it has not been tamed.The first two quotations apparently belong to this sense.
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the world > animals > birds > order Galliformes (fowls) > [noun] > member of Meleagrididae (turkey)
turkey1555
Indian cock1638
1555 in W. Dugdale Origines Juridiciales (1666) xlviii. 135 Turkies 2. rated at 4s. a piece 00. 08. 00.
1573 T. Tusser Fiue Hundreth Points Good Husbandry (new ed.) f. 37 Runcifall pease..more tender, & greater they wex: if peacocke and turkey, leaue iobbing their becks.
1598 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 1 ii. i. 26 The Turkies in my Panier are quite starued. View more context for this quotation
1616 J. Smith Descr. New Eng. 29 Teale, Meawes, Guls, Turkies, Diue-doppers.
1634 W. Wood New Englands Prospect i. viii. 28 The Turky is a very large Bird, of a blacke colour, yet white in flesh.
1643 R. Baker Chron. Kings of Eng. iii. 66 About his fifteenth yeare [sc. 1524], it happened that divers things were newly brought into England, whereupon this Rime was made: Turkes [1653 Turkeys], Carps, Hoppes, Piccarell and Beere, Came into England all in one yeere.
1698 J. Fryer New Acct. E.-India & Persia 116 Others [Pigeons] walked on the Ground, with their Breasts bearing out, and the Feathers of their Tails spreading like Turkies.
a1705 M. Prior Ladle 74 Fat Turkeys gobbling at the Door.
1768 T. Pennant Brit. Zool. (new ed.) I. ii. 213 The Turky was unknown to the antient naturalists, and even to the old world before the discovery of America.
1805 R. Southey Madoc ii. xi. 283 The loud turkey's voice Is heralding the dawn.
1860 E. B. Tylor Anahuac (1861) ix. 228 The turkey, which was introduced into Europe from Mexico, was called ‘huexolotl’ from the gobbling noise it makes.
1885 J. Ruskin Præterita I. iv. 115 Civilities at Christmas, in the way of turkeys or boxes of raisins.
b. wild turkey, the wild original of the domestic fowl; commonly applied to the North American bird: see above and sense 3.
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the world > animals > birds > order Galliformes (fowls) > [noun] > member of Meleagrididae (turkey) > wild
wild turkey1613
1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage 762 They haue Eagles, Haukes, wilde Turkeys and other Fowle.
1624 J. Smith Gen. Hist. Virginia ii. 27 Wild Turkies are as bigge as our tame.
1707 J. Mortimer Whole Art Husbandry (1721) I. 260 I knew a Gentleman that had a Hen-Turkey of the wild kind from Virginia; of which, and an English Cock, he raised a very fine Breed.
1830 ‘B. Moubray’ Domest. Poultry (ed. 6) x. 81 There is a sameness of colour in the wild turkey, and the original stock seems to have been black, domestication generally inducing a variety of colours.
1850 D. J. Browne Amer. Poultry Yard 138 Two species only are known to naturalists, namely, the common wild turkey, (Meleagris gallopavo,) of North America, the origin of our domestic stock, and the Honduras turkey, (M. ocellata).
c. The flesh of this bird, esp. the domestic turkey, as food.
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the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > fowls > [noun] > turkey
turkey1573
Thanksgiving turkey1829
1573 T. Tusser Fiue Hundreth Points Good Husbandry (new ed.) f. 29v Christmas husbandly fare..shred pies of the best,..& Turkey wel drest.
1840 R. H. Barham Lay St. Nicholas in Ingoldsby Legends 1st Ser. 263 The lay-brothers bring To the board a magnificent turkey and chine. The turkey and chine..are done to a nicety.
1886 W. J. Tucker Life E. Europe 122 Cold turkey and ham, or roast chicken. How I hate that turkey! It's so vulgar too; almost as vulgar as goose.
d. U.S. and Canadian. Allusively, in colloquial or dialect phrases, etc. to say or talk turkey, to talk agreeably or affably, to say pleasant things; now usually (in this sense also to talk cold turkey) to speak frankly and without reserve; to talk hard facts, get down to business; (no longer restricted to North America); to talk turkey, to use high-flown language; hence absol. language of this character; not to say (pea-) turkey, to say nothing at all, ‘not to say a word’ (about something); to walk turkey, to strut or swagger; of a ship, to pitch and roll. (See Bartlett Dict. Americanisms, and Thornton American Glossary.)
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the mind > language > speech > manner of speaking > speak in a particular manner [verb (intransitive)] > speak pleasingly > eloquently
to say or talk turkey1824
to wax eloquent1842
to wax lyrical1911
the world > action or operation > behaviour > good behaviour > courtesy > be courteous [verb (intransitive)] > be agreeable > be affable > speak affably
to say or talk turkey1824
society > travel > travel by water > action or motion of vessel > [verb (intransitive)] > pitch and roll
travaila1393
totterc1400
walterc1400
labour1587
senda1625
to bruise the water1836
stagger1840
pant1869
to walk turkey1888
pound1903
slam1958
the mind > language > speech > taciturnity or reticence > be silent/refrain from speaking [verb (intransitive)] > cease to mention
letc1275
to let bec1275
to fall awaya1413
stinta1500
failc1650
not to say (pea-) turkey1909
the mind > language > speech > speak [verb (intransitive)] > without restraint
to wear one's heart on one's tongue (also in one's mouth)?1576
to speak out1694
to open up1884
to talk cold turkey1928
1824 Little Bit of Tid-Re-I ii. 109 So that, all things considered, I hope neither the Indian, whom the Yankey could not cheat in the division of their game (a turkey and a buzzard,)..will accuse me of not talking Turkey to them in this article.
1846 J. W. Abert in Congress Documents XXX. 502 The Indian replied, ‘You never once said turkey to me’.
1851 Adv. Capt. Suggs 122 in Thornton Amer. Gloss. He won't get a chance to say turkey to a good lookin gall to-day.
a1860 McClintock Beedle's Marriage I was plaguy apt to talk turkey always when I got sociable, if it was only out of politeness.
1888 San Francisco Weekly Examiner 22 Mar. in J. S. Farmer Americanisms (1889) The north wind commenced to make the Yaquina walk turkey, standing her up on either end alternately.
1888 Washington Critic in J. S. Farmer Americanisms (1889) ‘What..does locum tenens mean, Tim?’.. ‘Why, that's turkey for pro tem., of course’.
1903 Dial. Notes 2 333 Talk turkey, v.phr., to talk plainly: ‘I'm going to talk turkey with him and see if I can't get him to mend his ways.’
1909 Dial. Notes (U.S.) 3 356 in Thornton Amer. Gloss. She never said pea-turkey to me about it.
1919 E. Hough Sagebrusher xiv. 125 Do you know when he got rattled he began to talk Dutch to me? Well, I talked turkey to him.
1928 Daily Express 4 Jan. 11/5 She talked cold turkey about sex. ‘Cold turkey’ means plain truth in America.
1939 A. Huxley After Many a Summer ii. x. 279 ‘I'll make it worth your while,’ he said. ‘You can have anything you care to ask for.’.. ‘Ah,’ said Dr. Obispo, ‘now you're talking turkey.’
1946 E. Hodgins Mr. Blandings builds his Dream House (1947) xv. 196 The boss painter..wanted to talk turkey about..the final colours.
1967 A. Christie Endless Night ix. 67 Send for a high powered lawyer and tell him you're willing to talk turkey. Then he fixes..the amount of alimony.
1982 T. Berger Reinhart's Women xix. 270 Maybe I'll be in a position to talk turkey about an arrangement that would work out for us both.
e. cold turkey: a method of treating drug addicts by sudden and complete withdrawal of the drug, instead of by a gradual process. Also attributive and as adv.phr.; also transferred. Hence cold-turkey vb. trans., to cure of drug addiction by ‘cold turkey’ treatment. slang (originally North American).
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the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > treatment of specific diseases or conditions > [noun] > of drug addiction
reduction1914
cold turkey1921
detox1975
the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > treatment of specific diseases or conditions > treat specific diseases or conditions [verb (transitive)] > cure of addiction to drugs or alcohol
cold turkey1960
dry out1967
detox1972
1921 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 13 Oct. 15/6 Perhaps the most pitiful figures who have appeared before Dr. Carleton Simon..are those who voluntarily surrender themselves. When they go before him, they [sc. drug addicts] are given what is called the ‘cold turkey’ treatment.
1936 Amer. Speech 11 120/1 Cold turkey, treatment of addicts in institutions where they are taken off drugs suddenly without the ‘tapering off’ which the addict always desires.
1941 W. C. Handy Father of Blues xviii. 243 We went on ‘cold turkey’ that morning without a rehearsal.
1951 N.Y. Times 27 June 19 She tried it ‘cold turkey’ once, which she explained meant merely stopping completely, without any attendant medication.
1960 Times Lit. Suppl. 16 Sept. 589/4 The Scene is written by a junkie..who was snitched by a flip, busted by the nailers and after a stretch in the pen cold turkeyed..that is to say, was once a dope addict; he was arrested and..managed to break himself of his addiction.
1962 ‘K. Orvis’ Damned & Destroyed xi. 72 I made one cold~turkey cure and it near killed me.
1976 S. George Fatal Shadows 154 She took a cold turkey, no methedrine, no sedatives, nothing, just off.
3.
a. Applied with qualification to other birds: A local name of the Bustard; now usually applied to the Australian Bustard, also called native, plain, or wild turkey (Eupodotis (Otis) australis); in Australia also, the brush- or wattled turkey and the scrub-turkey: see these words; in America, Colorado or water-turkey, names for native species of Ibis; water-turkey, the Darter or Snake-bird ( Plotus anhinga); in South Africa, the Bald Ibis ( Gerontius calvus).
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the world > animals > birds > order Gruiformes > [noun] > family Otididae > member of genus Ardeotis (Australian bustard)
kori bustard1811
gompaauw1838
native, plain, or wild turkey1847
plain turkey1866
plains turkey1914
the world > animals > birds > order Pelecaniformes > [noun] > member of family Anhingidae (darter)
anhinga1769
snake-bird1791
darter1825
serpent bird1870
Colorado or water-turkeya1889
1847 W. B. Carpenter Zool.: Systematic Acct. I. §435 Termed..the Brush Turkey, on account of the wattles with which its neck is furnished.
1848 J. Gould Birds Austral. VI. pl. 4 Australian Bustard;..Native Turkey.
1852 W. J. Broderip Leaves Note Bk. of Naturalist 139 The brush-turkey belongs to a family of birds..which never incubate, but..leave their eggs to the genial warmth of this half-natural, half artificial mother.
c1868 G. Pryme in Autobiog. Recoll. (1870) xxvi. 386 I have seen Bustards,..which the natives called Wild Turkey,..flying over the Gogmagog Hills.
1872 C. H. Eden My Wife & I in Queensland iv. 122 The plain turkey or bustard (Otis Australasianus),..the male weighing from eighteen to twenty-five pounds.
1872 C. H. Eden My Wife & I in Queensland 124 The scrub turkey (Talegalla Lathami)..much resembles the English hen turkey, though but little larger than a fowl.
a1889 Amer. Cycl. V. 692 This bird [Plotus anhinga] is a constant resident in Florida, and the lower parts of Louisiana, Alabama, and Georgia... In these localities it bears the various names of water crow, Grecian lady, water turkey, and cormorant.
b. plain turkey, scrub turkey: humorous names for swagmen who haunt, respectively, the Australian plains and the bush [perhaps with partial allusion to the ‘turkey’ (sense 5 below) which they carry] . Australian slang.
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society > travel > aspects of travel > travel from place to place > [noun] > without fixed aim or wandering > vagrancy or vagabondage > vagabond or tramp
harlot?c1225
raikera1400
vacabond1404
vagrant1444
gangrela1450
briber?c1475
palliard1484
vagabondc1485
rogue1489
wavenger1493
hermit1495
gaberlunzie1508
knight of the field1508
loiterer1530
straggler1530
runagate1534
ruffler1535
hedge-creeper1548
Abraham man1567
cursitor1567
runner1567
walker1567
tinker1575
traveller1598
Tartar1602
stravagant1606
wagand1614
Circumcellion1623
meechera1625
hedge-bird1631
gaberlunzie man1649
tramp1664
stroller1681
jockey1685
bird of passage1717
randy1724
tramper1760
stalko1804
vagabondager1813
rintherout1814
piker1838
pikey1838
beachcomber1840
roadster1851
vagabondizer1860
roustabout1862
bum1864
migratory1866
potter1867
sundowner1868
vag1868
walkabout1872
transient1877
Murrumbidgee whaler1878
rouster1882
run-the-hedge1882
whaler1883
shaughraun1884
heather-cat1886
hobo1889
tussocker1889
gay cat1893
overlander1898
stake-man1899
stiff1899
bindle-stiff1900
dingbat1902
stew-bum1902
tired Tim (also Timothy)1906
skipper1925
Strandlooper1927
knight of the road1928
hobohemian1936
plain turkey1955
scrub turkey1955
derro1963
jakey1988
crusty1990
1955 A. Marshall I can jump Puddles 152 Father..was familiar with the ways of swagmen... The bearded men who kept to the bush he called ‘Scrub Turkeys’ and those who came down from the plains he called ‘Plain Turkeys’.
1973 F. Huelin Keep Moving 178 Scrub Turkey, bagman who has gone Bush. Usually slightly mental or eccentric.
†4. Angling. Short for turkey-fly n. at Compounds 2. Obsolete.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing-tackle > means of attracting fish > [noun] > artificial fly > types of
moor flylOE
drake-flya1450
dub-flya1450
dun cut1496
dun fly1496
louper1496
red fly1616
moorish fly1635
palmer1653
palmer fly1653
red hackle1653
red palmer1653
shell-fly1653
orange fly1662
blackfly1669
dun1676
dun hackle1676
hackle1676
mayfly1676
peacock fly1676
thorn-tree fly1676
turkey-fly1676
violet-fly1676
whirling dun1676
badger fly1681
greenfly1686
moorish brown1689
prime dun1696
sandfly1700
grey midge1724
whirling blue1747
dun drake?1758
death drake1766
hackle fly1786
badger1787
blue1787
brown-fly1787
camel-brown1787
spinner1787
midge1799
night-fly1799
thorn-fly1799
turkey1799
withy-fly1799
grayling fly1811
sun fly1820
cock-a-bondy1835
brown moth1837
bunting-lark fly1837
governor1837
water-hen hackle1837
Waterloo fly1837
coachman1839
soldier palmer1839
blue jay1843
red tag1850
canary1855
white-tip1856
spider1857
bumble1859
doctor1860
ibis1863
Jock Scott1866
eagle1867
highlander1867
jay1867
John Scott1867
judge1867
parson1867
priest1867
snow-fly1867
Jack Scott1874
Alexandra1875
silver doctor1875
Alexandra fly1882
grackle1894
grizzly queen1894
heckle-fly1897
Zulu1898
thunder and lightning1910
streamer1919
Devon1924
peacock1950
1799 tr. Laboratory (ed. 6) II. x. 301 The Turkey, or March-fly..is thought to be the cob-fly.
5. transferred in lumbering: see quots. 1893, 1905; applied more generally to bundles or holdalls carried by other itinerant workers, vagrants, etc. North American and Australian.
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society > travel > aspects of travel > a journey > [noun] > luggage > used by pilgrims, beggars, etc.
scripc1300
shripc1300
walletc1405
sherpe1426
wantel1536
bundle handkerchief1884
turkey1893
bindle1925
society > occupation and work > equipment > receptacle or container > bag > [noun] > for personal belongings
ditty-bagc1860
dunnage bag1866
turkey1893
kit-bag1898
1893 Scribner's Mag. June 715/2 With his ‘time’ in his pocket and his ‘turkey’, a two-bushel bag in which he carries his belongings, strung over his shoulder, the shanty boy starts..for town.
1905 Terms Forestry & Logging (Bull. U.S. Dept. Agric., Bureau Forestry, No. 61) 52 Turkey, a bag containing a lumberjack's outfit. To ‘histe the turkey’ is to take one's personal belongings and leave camp.
1909 Outlook 2 Jan. 19/1 A [Colorado] desert miner calls his valise a ‘turkey’.
1912 G. H. Gibson Ironbark Splinters 6 So you ‘pack’ your bloomin' turkey, and you take the northern train.
1931 ‘D. Stiff’ Milk & Honey Route 216 Turkey, a bundle, a suitcase or a canvas bag.
1945 S. J. Baker Austral. Lang. v. 104 Expressions to describe being on the tramp...[to]coil one's turkey (strictly this applies to the rolling of a swag) [etc.].
1963 R. D. Symons Many Trails v. 54 The cowboys' ‘turkeys’—as they called their bedrolls, in which were wrapped their personal possessions such as tobacco—when the outfit was on the move.
1973 in B. Broadfoot Ten Lost Years ii. 19 I took to the road with..my poor clothes tied together with two leather thongs, and that is what they call a turkey.
6. U.S. slang.
a. An inferior or unsuccessful cinematographic or theatrical production, a flop; hence, anything disappointing or of little value.
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the world > action or operation > failure or lack of success > [noun] > one who or that which is unsuccessful > that which is a failure
fizzle1846
fiasco1855
frost1874
blue duck1889
wash-out1902
blowout1925
turkey1927
flopperoo1936
stiff1937
muck-up1942
bomb1954
fizzer1957
lead balloon1960
damp squib1963
bummer1967
downer1976
society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > a play > [noun] > other types of play
king play1469
king game1504
historya1509
chronicle history1600
monology1608
horseplaya1627
piscatory1631
stock play1708
petite pièce1712
mimic1724
ballad opera1730
ballad farce1735
benefit-play1740
potboiler1783
monodrama1793
extravaganza1797
theo-drama1801
monodrame1803
proverb1803
stock piece1804
bespeak1807
ticket-night1812
dramaticle1813
monopolylogue1819
pièce d'occasion1830
interlude1831
mimea1834
costume piece1834
mummers' play1849
history play1850
gag-piece1860
music drama1874
well-made1881
playlet1884
two-decker1884
slum1885
kinderspiel1886
thrill1886
knockabout1887
two-hander1888
front-piece1889
thriller1889
shadow-play1890
mime play1894
problem play1894
one-acter1895
sex play1899
chronicle drama1902
thesis-play1902
star vehicle1904
folk-play1905
radio play1908
tab1915
spy play1919
one-act1920
pièce à thèse1923
dance-drama1924
a mess of plottage1926
turkey1927
weepie1928
musical1930
cliffhanger1931
mime drama1931
triangle drama1931
weeper1934
spine-chiller1940
starrer1941
scorcher1942
teleplay1947
straw-hatter1949
pièce noire1951
pièce rose1951
tab show1951
conversation piece1952
psychodrama1956
whydunit1968
mystery play1975
State of the Nation1980
society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > cinematography > a film > type of film > [noun] > other types
romantic comedy1748
epic1785
pre-release1871
foreign film1899
frivol1903
dramedy1905
film loop1906
first run1910
detective film1911
colour film1912
news film1912
topical1912
cinemicrograph1913
scenic1913
sport1913
newsreel1914
serial1914
sex comedy1915
war picture1915
telefilm1919
comic1920
true crime1923
art house1925
quickie1926
turkey1927
two-reeler1928
smellie1929
disaster film1930
musical1930
feelie1931
sticky1934
action comedy1936
quota quickie1936
re-release1936
screwball comedy1937
telemovie1937
pickup1939
video film1939
actioner1940
space opera1941
telepic1944
biopic1947
kinescope1949
TV movie1949
pièce noire1951
pièce rose1951
deepie1953
misterioso1953
film noir1956
policier1956
psychodrama1956
free film1958
prequel1958
co-production1959
glossy1960
sexploiter1960
sci-fier1961
tie-in1962
chanchada1963
romcom1963
wuxia1963
chick flick1964
showreel1964
mockumentary1965
sword-and-sandal1965
schlockbuster1966
mondo1967
peplum1968
thriller1968
whydunit1968
schlocker1969
buddy-buddy movie1972
buddy-buddy film1974
buddy film1974
science-fictioner1974
screwball1974
buddy movie1975
slasher movie1975
swashbuckler1975
filmi1976
triptych1976
autobiopic1977
Britcom1977
kidflick1977
noir1977
bodice-ripper1979
chopsocky1981
date movie1983
kaiju eiga1984
screener1986
neo-noir1987
indie1990
bromance2001
hack-and-slash2002
mumblecore2005
dark fantasy2007
hack-and-slay2007
gorefest2012
kidult-
1927 Vanity Fair (N.Y.) 29 132/3 ‘A turkey’ is a third rate production.
1939 G. Marx Let. 27 Oct. in G. Marx et al. Groucho Lett. (1967) 21 The boys at the studio have lined up another turkey for us... I saw the present one the other day and didn't care much for it.
1941 J. M. Cain Mildred Pierce 176 The beach..was studded with rocks and was therefore unsuitable to swimming. For all ordinary purposes it was simply a turkey.
1962 Movie June 18/1 With The Four Horsemen, Minnelli was once more landed with a turkey, an old one, too.
1977 H. Fast Immigrants iii. 201 ‘Have you ever thought of selling the place?’ Jake asked... ‘Oh? And who the hell would buy this turkey?’
b. = Turk n.1 4b; spec. an Irish immigrant in the U.S.
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the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of America > native or inhabitant of North America > native or inhabitant of U.S.A. > [noun] > by country of origin
American1648
African1700
High Dutch1773
Low Dutch1773
German-American1775
African American1782
Anglo-American1785
Irish-American1786
Africo-American1788
American African1826
Pennsylvania German1827
Pennsylvania Dutch1831
Afro-American1833
far-downer1834
Mexicano1847
knickerbocker1848
Chinese-American1854
Italian–American1873
Polish-American1876
Polacker1883
roundhead1895
hunk1896
Polack1898
Senegambian1900
bohunk1903
honky1904
hunyak1911
Turk1914
boho1920
Anglo1923
Euro-American1925
turkey1932
narrowback1933
nisei1934
roundheader1934
pachuco1943
pocho1944
Latino1946
Chicano1947
Mexican-American1948
Asian American1952
Amerasian1957
Chicana1966
Afrikan1972
Hispanic1972
1932 J. T. Farrell Young Lonigan i. 31 Dooley was one comical turkey, funnier than anything you'd find in real life.
1966 Publ. Amer. Dial. Soc. 1964 xlii. 39 Irish informants use turkey and saltwater turkey to designate a recent immigrant.
c. A stupid, slow, inept, or otherwise worthless person.
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the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > stupid, foolish, or inadequate person > stupid person, dolt, blockhead > [noun]
asseOE
sotc1000
beastc1225
long-ear?a1300
stock1303
buzzard1377
mis-feelinga1382
dasarta1400
stonea1400
dasiberd14..
dottlec1400
doddypoll1401
dastardc1440
dotterel1440
dullardc1440
wantwit1449
jobardc1475
nollc1475
assheada1500
mulea1500
dull-pate15..
peak1509
dulbert?a1513
doddy-patec1525
noddypolla1529
hammer-head1532
dull-head?1534
capon1542
dolt1543
blockhead1549
cod's head1549
mome1550
grout-head1551
gander1553
skit-brains?1553
blocka1556
calfa1556
tomfool1565
dunce1567
druggard1569
cobble1570
dummel1570
Essex calf1573
jolthead1573
hardhead1576
beetle-head1577
dor-head1577
groutnoll1578
grosshead1580
thickskin1582
noddyship?1589
jobbernowl1592
beetle-brain1593
Dorbel1593
oatmeal-groat1594
loggerhead1595
block-pate1598
cittern-head1598
noddypoop1598
dorbellist1599
numps1599
dor1601
stump1602
ram-head1605
look-like-a-goose1606
ruff1606
clod1607
turf1607
asinego1609
clot-poll1609
doddiea1611
druggle1611
duncecomb1612
ox-head1613
clod-polla1616
dulman1615
jolterhead1620
bullhead1624
dunderwhelpa1625
dunderhead1630
macaroona1631
clod-patea1635
clota1637
dildo1638
clot-pate1640
stupid1640
clod-head1644
stub1644
simpletonian1652
bottle-head1654
Bœotiana1657
vappe1657
lackwit1668
cudden1673
plant-animal1673
dolt-head1679
cabbage head1682
put1688
a piece of wood1691
ouphe1694
dunderpate1697
numbskull1697
leather-head1699
nocky1699
Tom Cony1699
mopus1700
bluff-head1703
clod skull1707
dunny1709
dowf1722
stupe1722
gamphrel1729
gobbin?1746
duncehead1749
half-wit1755
thick-skull1755
jackass1756
woollen-head1756
numbhead1757
beef-head1775
granny1776
stupid-head1792
stunpolla1794
timber-head1794
wether heada1796
dummy1796
noghead1800
staumrel1802
muttonhead1803
num1807
dummkopf1809
tumphya1813
cod's head and shoulders1820
stoopid1823
thick-head1824
gype1825
stob1825
stookiea1828
woodenhead1831
ning-nong1832
log-head1834
fat-head1835
dunderheadism1836
turnip1837
mudhead1838
donkey1840
stupex1843
cabbage1844
morepork1845
lubber-head1847
slowpoke1847
stupiditarian1850
pudding-head1851
cod's head and shoulders1852
putty head1853
moke1855
mullet-head1855
pothead1855
mug1857
thick1857
boodle1862
meathead1863
missing link1863
half-baked1866
lunk1867
turnip-head1869
rummy1872
pumpkin-head1876
tattie1879
chump1883
dully1883
cretin1884
lunkhead1884
mopstick1886
dumbhead1887
peanut head1891
pie-face1891
doughbakea1895
butt-head1896
pinhead1896
cheesehead1900
nyamps1900
box head1902
bonehead1903
chickenhead1903
thickwit1904
cluck1906
boob1907
John1908
mooch1910
nitwit1910
dikkop1913
goop1914
goofus1916
rumdum1916
bone dome1917
moron1917
oik1917
jabroni1919
dumb-bell1920
knob1920
goon1921
dimwit1922
ivory dome1923
stone jug1923
dingleberry1924
gimp1924
bird brain1926
jughead1926
cloth-head1927
dumb1928
gazook1928
mouldwarp1928
ding-dong1929
stupido1929
mook1930
sparrow-brain1930
knobhead1931
dip1932
drip1932
epsilon1932
bohunkus1933
Nimrod1933
dumbass1934
zombie1936
pea-brain1938
knot-head1940
schlump1941
jarhead1942
Joe Soap1943
knuckle-head1944
nong1944
lame-brain1945
gobshite1946
rock-head1947
potato head1948
jerko1949
turkey1951
momo1953
poop-head1955
a right one1958
bam1959
nong-nong1959
dickhead1960
dumbo1960
Herbert1960
lamer1961
bampot1962
dipshit1963
bamstick1965
doofus1965
dick1966
pillock1967
zipperhead1967
dipstick1968
thickie1968
poephol1969
yo-yo1970
doof1971
cockhead1972
nully1973
thicko1976
wazzock1976
motorhead1979
mouth-breather1979
no-brainer1979
jerkwad1980
woodentop1981
dickwad1983
dough ball1983
dickweed1984
bawheid1985
numpty1985
jerkweed1988
dick-sucker1989
knob-end1989
Muppet1989
dingus1997
dicksack1999
eight ball-
1951 in H. Wentworth & S. B. Flexner Dict. Amer. Slang (1960) 556/2 So, if you got a collector [of internal revenue] through the civil service system who was a real turkey, you'd be stuck with that turkey practically until he died.
1969 C. F. Burke God is Beautiful, Man (1970) 105 You better get real strong like so that you won't be a turkey.
1978 Time 3 July 13/3 ‘Come on, you turkeys! Let's speed this show up!’ cries an irreverent observer.
1984 Tampa (Florida) Tribune 5 Apr. 4 d/3 I decided I had had enough of that turkey.

Compounds

C1. General attributive.
a.
turkey-butcher n.
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1850 D. J. Browne Amer. Poultry Yard 165 There are turkey butchers of whom you may buy the half or a quarter of a bird.
turkey-chick n. figurative
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the world > animals > birds > order Galliformes (fowls) > [noun] > member of Meleagrididae (turkey) > young
turkey-chick1555
turkey-poult1694
1555 in W. Dugdale Origines Juridiciales (1666) xlviii. 135 Turky-Chicks 4. rated at iiiis. a piece 00. 16. 00.
1664 S. Butler Hudibras: Second Pt. ii. iii. 142 Putting Knavish tricks Upon Green-Geese, and Turkey-Chicks.
turkey-coop n.
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1834 F. Marryat Peter Simple II. viii. 116 The geese and turkey-coops are divided off into apartments for four sows.
turkey dinner n.
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1953 G. W. Brace Spire xiii. 125 ‘Turkey dinner, eh?’ ‘With gravy,’ Sylvia said.
1977 ‘W. Trevor’ in D. Marcus Best Irish Stories II. 78 The Bulrush Café has a turkey dinner advertised.
turkey-drumstick n. (In quot. attributive)
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1860 O. W. Holmes Professor at Breakfast-table ii The turkey-drumstick style of organization.
turkey farm n.
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1952 Turkeys Nov. p. ix. (advt.) Beale's turkey farm.
turkey farmer n.
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1959 Turkeys July–Aug. 29 (advt.) One of Norfolk's leading turkey farmers.
1972 K. Bonfiglioli Don't point that Thing at Me iv. 40 A rich turkey-farmer in Suffolk.
turkey-feather n.
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1624 J. Smith Gen. Hist. Virginia ii. 30 We haue seene some vse mantels made of Turky feathers.
1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. Turkey-feather laver, the common name of Padina pavonia.
turkey-gobbler n.
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1836 W. T. Porter in Spirit of Times 9 July 162/1 They seemed to me about the size of a big Christmas turkey gobbler.
1879 J. Burroughs Locusts & Wild Honey 46 The turkey-gobbler and the rooster.
turkey-hunt n.
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1827 J. F. Cooper Prairie I. iii. 46 Dreaming of a turkey hunt.
turkey-hunter n.
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1895 Outing 27 231/1 Nearly every negro man and boy on the plantation came up to have a look at the famous turkey hunter.
turkey meat n.
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1901 A. H. Rice Mrs. Wiggs of Cabbage Patch ii. 24 If you ain't never et turkey meat you don't know how good it is.
1972 Country Life 30 Nov. 1507/1 The promoters of turkey-meat sales.
turkey-pie n.
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1602 2nd Pt. Returne fr. Parnassus ii. vi. 982 I inuited the hungry slaue..to the canuasing of a Turkey Pye.
turkey-poult n.
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the world > animals > birds > order Galliformes (fowls) > [noun] > member of Meleagrididae (turkey) > young
turkey-chick1555
turkey-poult1694
1694 P. A. Motteux Wks. F. Rabelais (1737) iv. lix. 243 Hortolans. Turkey-Cocks, Hen-Turkeys, and Turkey-poots.
1769 E. Raffald Experienced Eng. Housekeeper (1778) 373 Ducklings, Turkey Poults, Plovers.
a1809 A. Seward Let. 25 Jan. (1811) I. 113 A Turkey-poot casting about with a pitiful poked-out neck, for its lost companion.
1850 D. J. Browne Amer. Poultry Yard 165 To eat turkey poults is a wasteful piece of luxury.
turkey-shooter n.
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1869 T. W. Higginson Army Life (1870) 11 Some steady old turkey-shooter hit the mark.
turkey-tail n.
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1851 J. J. Hooper Widow Rugby in Some Adventures Simon Suggs 84 Betsy dodged behind the wild turkey-tail which she carried by way of a fan.
1936 M. Mitchell Gone with the Wind xviii. 318 Girls who laughed from behind turkey-tail fans.
turkey-wing n.
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1872 H. B. Stowe Oldtown Fireside Stories 4 ‘I'll sweep up the coals now,’ he added, vigorously applying a turkey-wing to the purpose.
1888 Cent. Mag. 36 769/2 Turkey-wing fans and fans of peacock feathers.
b.
turkey-like n.
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1855 Poultry Chron. 3 67 Large turkey-like bird, native of Mexico.
C2.
Categories »
turkey-apple n. local name of Cratægus induta, a small tree of Arkansas, bearing small reddish berries ( Cent. Dict. Suppl. 1909).
turkey-back n. a large variety of the yellowshank, Totanus melanoleucus.
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the world > animals > birds > order Charadriiformes > family Scolopacidae (snipes, etc.) > [noun] > member of genus Tringa > tringa melanoleuca
stone-snipe1785
yellowshank1785
telltale1813
turkey-back1888
yellow leg1889
1888 G. Trumbull Names & Portraits Birds 168 At Salem, Mass., the larger birds of the species [Totanus melanoleucus] have long been distinguished from the others under the name of Turkey-back.
turkey-beard n.
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1813 J. M. Good et al. Pantologia at Cordia C. collococca:..of Jamaica..the clammy-cherry, or turky-bearing-tree.
turkey-berry n. (a) Solanum mammosum and S. torvum of the West Indies; (b) the fruit of a W. Indian tree, Cordia Collococca ( turkey-berry tree); see also Turkey n.1 Compounds 3.
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the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > berry-bush or -tree > [noun] > tropical American or West Indian > others
cloven-berry1725
sky flower1761
Indian currant1785
turkey-berry1858
marlberry1884
marbleberry1946
the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular fruit-tree or -plant > [noun] > tree or plant producing edible berries > other plants producing edible berries
shallon1806
mackaw bush1814
susumber1814
salal1825
quandong1836
tangle1857
turkey-berry1858
quandong1862
manatoka1897
riberry1988
1858 R. Hogg Veg. Kingdom 538 Turkey and other poultry feed on the fruit of C[ordia] collococca, called Turkey-berry Tree and..Clammy Cherry.
1884 W. Miller Dict. Eng. Names Plants Turkey-berry, Solanum mammosum and S. torvum.
turkey-bird n. local name of the wryneck, and of the turnstone.
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the world > animals > birds > order Charadriiformes > family Scolopacidae (snipes, etc.) > [noun] > arenaria interpres (turnstone)
sea-lark1602
turnstone1674
sea-dotterel1676
stone-pecker1731
whale-bird1771
bullfinch plover1864
tangle-picker1882
turkey-bird1885
jinny1888
sparked back (plover)1888
the world > animals > birds > perching birds > order Piciformes > [noun] > family Picidae > jynx torquilla (wryneck)
wryneck1585
jynxa1657
yunx1694
barley-bird1766
long tongue1822
cuckoo's mate1831
snake-bird1831
pea-bird1838
writheneck1840
rinding-bird1849
weet-bird1863
mackerel bird1879
felling bird1883
turkey-bird1885
1885 C. Swainson Provinc. Names Brit. Birds 104 Wryneck (Jynx torquilla),..Turkey bird. Because it erects and ruffles the feathers of its neck when disturbed.
1894 Scott Willcox Egg Collector's Handy Dict. Turkey-bird,..Turnstone, Strepsilas interpres.
turkey-blossom n. West Indian name of Tribulus cistoides.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > non-British plants or herbs > [noun] > American or West Indian
masterwort1523
hogweed1707
black root1709
many-seed1750
Martynia1753
Maranta1754
hog meat1756
iron1756
Evolvulus1764
zebra plant1826
turkey-flower1843
vriesia1843
Spanish needles1846
turkey-blossom1849
horse poison1851
St Martin's herb1860
goatweed1864
wake-robin1864
frog-bit1866
herb of St. Martin1866
pipi1866
goatweed1869
cigar-plant1961
1849 J. Craig New Universal Dict. Turkey-blossom, the name given in Jamaica to the plant Tribulus terrestris.
turkey-bush n. an evergreen shrub, Myoporum deserti, native to Australia and bearing white flowers followed by purple berries.
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the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > non-British trees or shrubs > Australasian trees > [noun] > other Australasian trees or shrubs
burrawang1826
water gum1826
kaikomako1832
karaka1834
kawa-kawa1838
peppermint1838
bottle tree1844
ngaio1849
Grevillea1853
red birch1853
wooden pear1860
muskwood1866
sugar-tree1866
tulip-tree1866
hop-bush1883
mock orange1884
mountain beech1884
sage tree1884
tile-seed1884
mutton-bird scrub1889
red birch1889
silver-tree1889
whalebone-tree1889
budda1890
camphor laurel1894
pepperbush1895
mustard bush1898
willow myrtle1898
pigeon wood1899
horizontal scrub1909
turkey-bush1911
pandani1923
mock orange1929
1911 W. R. Guilfoyle Austral. Plants 265 ‘Turkey-bush’..evergreen shrub..reputed poisonous and injurious to stock.
1936 F. Clune Roaming round Darling xvii. 163 Shrubs..mingled with turkey-bush flower—white and small, having five petals to each bloom, like an English daisy.
1965 Austral. Encycl. IX. 59/2 Turkey-bush, one of several names applied to the inland shrub Myoporum deserti because wild turkeys or native bustards have been observed to eat the berried fruits.
turkey-buzzard n. an American carrion vulture, Cathartes aura, so called from its bare reddish head and neck and dark plumage; the John Crow of Jamaica; also figurative; in West Africa, the Vulturine Pie, Picathartes gymnocephalus.
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the world > animals > birds > order Falconiformes (falcons, etc.) > family Cathartidae (New World vultures) > [noun] > cathartes aura (turkey vulture)
turkey-buzzard1672
gallinazo1772
zopilote1787
John Crowa1818
turkey vulture1823
1672 J. Josselyn New-Englands Rarities 12 The Turkie Buzzard, a kind of Kite, but as big as a Turkie, brown of colour, and very good meat.
1839 C. Darwin in R. Fitzroy & C. Darwin Narr. Surv. Voy. H.M.S. Adventure & Beagle III. iii. 68 The turkey-buzzard (Vultur aura)...found wherever the country is moderately damp, from Cape Horn to North America.
1897 M. Kingsley Trav. W. Afr. 23 One of the chief features of Free Town are the jack crows... Picathartes gymnocephalus. To the white people who live in daily contact with them they are turkey-buzzards; to the natives, Yubu.
turkey-call n. (a) the gobbling sound characteristic of the turkey-cock; also (b) an instrument for imitating this, used to decoy the wild turkey.
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1873 Forest & Stream 2 Oct. 123/1 A turkey-call is easily imitated by using the hollow bone of the leg or wing of the same.
turkey-corn n. Dicentra (Dielytra) canadensis of eastern North America, having yellow tubers like grains of maize; also called squirrel-corn; see also Turkey n.1 Compounds 3.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > poppy and allied flowers > allied flowers
poppyOE
horned poppy1548
yellow poppy1548
sea poppy1562
garden poppy1577
wind-rose1597
prickly poppy1648
squatmore1691
oriental poppy1731
Welsh poppy1731
infernal fig1760
Mexican poppy1811
Meconopsis1836
redcap1846
horn-poppy1851
squirrel-corn1856
eschscholtzia1857
dielytra1864
Dicentra1866
yellow thistle1866
turkey-corn1884
Shirley poppy1886
1884 W. Miller Dict. Eng. Names Plants Turkey-corn, Corydalis formosa.
turkey-dog n. a dog trained to hunt the wild turkey.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Canidae > dogs used for specific purposes > [noun] > sporting or hunting dog > that hunts specific animals
bear dog1616
wolf-dog1652
coney dog1681
foumart-dog?1748
bird dog1755
boar-dog1792
bear hound1807
wolf-hound1823
toller1831
coon-dog1833
pig-dog1845
rat terrier1851
ratter1858
rabbiter1859
squirrel-dog1860
badgerer1876
boar-hound1884
turkey-dog1895
coon hound1920
1895 Outing 27 231/1 This setter..was an excellent turkey dog.
turkey-egg n. the egg of the turkey; also (plural) the common fritillary (local).
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the world > animals > birds > order Galliformes (fowls) > [noun] > member of Meleagrididae (turkey) > parts or egg of
jollop1705
turkey-egg1718
the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > Rhopalocera (butterflies) > [noun] > family Nymphalidae > subfamily Ithomiinae > genus Argynnis > member of (fritillary)
turkey-egg1718
fritillary1857
high brown1869
1718 Lady M. W. Montagu Let. 10 Mar. (1965) I. 382 A fine colour'd Emerald as big as a Turkey Egg.
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turkey-fat ore n. local name for a variety of smithsonite (carbonate of zinc) coloured yellow by greenockite ( Cent. Dict. 1891).
turkey-feather fucus n. peacock's-tail seaweed, Padina pavonia.
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the world > plants > particular plants > algae > seaweed > [noun] > peacock's tail
turkey-feather fucus1768
peacock's tail1857
1768 J. Ellis in Philos. Trans. 1767 (Royal Soc.) 57 407 It is well known by the name of Turky-feather Fucus,..Fucus Pavonius.
turkey-flower n. = turkey-blossom n.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > non-British plants or herbs > [noun] > American or West Indian
masterwort1523
hogweed1707
black root1709
many-seed1750
Martynia1753
Maranta1754
hog meat1756
iron1756
Evolvulus1764
zebra plant1826
turkey-flower1843
vriesia1843
Spanish needles1846
turkey-blossom1849
horse poison1851
St Martin's herb1860
goatweed1864
wake-robin1864
frog-bit1866
herb of St. Martin1866
pipi1866
goatweed1869
cigar-plant1961
1843 Penny Cycl. XXVII. 830/2 T[ribulus] cistoides..is abundant about Kingston in Jamaica, where it is called turkey-flower... Fowls are said to be fond of this plant.
† turkey-fly n. Obsolete a kind of angler's fly: cf. sense 4.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing-tackle > means of attracting fish > [noun] > artificial fly > types of
moor flylOE
drake-flya1450
dub-flya1450
dun cut1496
dun fly1496
louper1496
red fly1616
moorish fly1635
palmer1653
palmer fly1653
red hackle1653
red palmer1653
shell-fly1653
orange fly1662
blackfly1669
dun1676
dun hackle1676
hackle1676
mayfly1676
peacock fly1676
thorn-tree fly1676
turkey-fly1676
violet-fly1676
whirling dun1676
badger fly1681
greenfly1686
moorish brown1689
prime dun1696
sandfly1700
grey midge1724
whirling blue1747
dun drake?1758
death drake1766
hackle fly1786
badger1787
blue1787
brown-fly1787
camel-brown1787
spinner1787
midge1799
night-fly1799
thorn-fly1799
turkey1799
withy-fly1799
grayling fly1811
sun fly1820
cock-a-bondy1835
brown moth1837
bunting-lark fly1837
governor1837
water-hen hackle1837
Waterloo fly1837
coachman1839
soldier palmer1839
blue jay1843
red tag1850
canary1855
white-tip1856
spider1857
bumble1859
doctor1860
ibis1863
Jock Scott1866
eagle1867
highlander1867
jay1867
John Scott1867
judge1867
parson1867
priest1867
snow-fly1867
Jack Scott1874
Alexandra1875
silver doctor1875
Alexandra fly1882
grackle1894
grizzly queen1894
heckle-fly1897
Zulu1898
thunder and lightning1910
streamer1919
Devon1924
peacock1950
1676 C. Cotton Compl. Angler vii. 63 The first flie we take notice of..is call'd the Turky-flie.
turkey-foot n. (a) [ < the shape of the spike] , local name for North American grasses of the genus Andropogon; (b) applied to other things resembling a turkey's foot (in quot. 1932, a weaving pattern).
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the world > space > shape > other specific shapes > [noun] > others
sunc1400
T1621
floscule1669
cauliflower1803
leaf shape1804
map1822
sphendone1847
thistle1891
turkey-foot1932
1932 L. E. Simpson & M. Weir Weaver's Craft xii. 126 Turkey Foot (24 threads).—Each pedal should be used six times in the following order: 4, 2, 3, 1; repeat.
1935 M. Moore Sel. Poems 71 The firs stand in a procession, each with an emerald turkey-foot at the top.
turkey-gnat n. a small black fly of the genus Simulium which infests poultry in southern and western North America.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Diptera or flies > [noun] > suborder Nematocera > family Simuliidae > member of genus Simulium
blackfly1776
gnat1787
buffalo gnat1822
buffalo fly1849
kabouri1899
turkey-gnat1899
simulium1902
1899 D. Sharp in Cambr. Nat. Hist. VI. vii. 477 In North America the..Turkey-gnats attack a variety of mammals and birds.
turkey-grass n. goose-grass or cleavers ( Galium Aparine).
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > climbing or creeping plants > [noun] > goose-grass or cleavers
cleaversc1000
hairifc1000
tongue-bleedc1450
goose-grass1530
goose-hairif1551
goose-share1578
clithers1597
goose-bill1597
philanthropos1597
love-man1598
rundles1601
rennet wort1688
catchweed1691
goose-tongue1738
sticking-grass1829
scratch-weed1855
turkey-grass1874
beggars'-lice1880
tongue-bleeder1905
1874 E. Waddy Year Wild Flowers 62 Goosegrass, Turkey-grass, Cleavers,..names..familiar to all..for the Bedstraw.
turkey laver n. = turkey-feather fucus n.
turkey-louse n. a feather-eating parasite, as Goniodes stylifer, infesting turkeys ( Cent. Dict., and Suppl.).
turkey-merchant n. slang see quots.; cf. Turkey n.1 Compounds 1.
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society > trade and finance > selling > seller > sellers of specific things > [noun] > seller of provisions > seller of poultry or game
poultera1400
poulterer1534
poultryman1538
turkey-merchant1699
rabbit-o1902
the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping birds > poultry-keeping > [noun] > keeper of poultry > keeper of turkeys
turkey-merchant1699
1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Turky-Merchants, drivers of Turkies.
1785 F. Grose Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue Turkey merchant, a poulterer.
turkey-oak n. Quercus Catesbæi, of south-eastern North America; also, the American ‘Spanish’ oak, Q. falcata.
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the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > tree or shrub groups > oak and allies > [noun] > other oaks
red oakOE
cerre-tree1577
gall-tree1597
robur1601
kermes1605
live oak1610
white oak1610
royal oak1616
swamp-oak1683
grey oak1697
rock oak1699
chestnut oak1703
water oak1709
Spanish oak1716
turkey-oak1717
willow oak1717
iron oak1724
maiden oak1725
scarlet oak1738
black jack1765
post oak1775
durmast1791
mountain chestnut oak1801
quercitron oak1803
laurel oak1810
mossy-cup oak1810
rock chestnut oak1810
pin oak1812
overcup oak1814
overcup white oak1814
bur oak1815
jack oak1816
mountain oak1818
shingle-oak1818
gall-oak1835
peach oak1835
golden oak1838
weeping oak1838
Aleppo oak1845
Italian oak1858
dyer's oak1861
Gambel's Oak1878
maul oak1884
punk oak1884
sessile oak1906
Garry oak1908
roble1908
1717 Petiveriana iii. 206 Turkey Oak. From a small Acorn it bears which the Wild Turkeys feed on.
turkey-pea n. ( wild-turkey pea n.) = turkey-corn n.; also applied to the hoary pea, Tephrosia virginiana.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Papaveraceae (fumitory and allies) > [noun]
fumitoryc1386
holewort1578
hollow-root1578
corydalis1819
poppywort1846
wax doll1854
hollowwort1863
turkey-pea1884
1884 W. Miller Dict. Eng. Names Plants Turkey-pea, Wild, Corydalis formosa.
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turkey-pen n. U.S. a pen for trapping wild turkeys.
turkey's beard n. a North American herb, Xerophyllum asphodeloides, N.O. Liliaceæ, having a tuft of wiry root-leaves, and an erect stem with a raceme of white flowers.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > non-British plants or herbs > [noun] > North American > other plants
bear grass1750
gardenia1756
sisyrinchium1767
heartsease1785
blazing star1789
nondo1791
unicorn-plant1796
screw-stem1802
American centaury1803
wild ginger?1804
pinweed1814
sabbatia1814
mountain mint1817
orange-root1817
richweed1818
goldenseal1828
pipeweed1837
snow plant1846
lopseed1850
devil's claw1876
turkey's beard1884
richweed1894
blue star grass1999
1884 W. Miller Dict. Eng. Names Plants Turkey's-beard, Xerophyllum asphodeloides.
turkey-shoot n. a shooting-match in which the mark is a live turkey, or its head only.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > competitive shooting > [noun] > types of match or contest
turkey-shoot1845
pool1860
tie-shot1887
shoot-off1892
tie-shooting1902
miss-and-out1903
tie-shoot1909
cowboy action shooting1989
1845 S. Judd Margaret i. x. 62 Its succedanea..were a turkey shoot the next day, and a ball.
1898 H. Frederic Deserter 81 The farther of the two was now so far away that he seemed a mere dark speck, like the object seen from the gun-line of a turkey-shoot.
1980 Outdoor Life (U.S.) Oct. (Northeast ed.) 92/2 Saturday afternoon turkey shoots used to be popular in my community.
† turkey-tomb n. Obsolete a turkey-pie (humorous).
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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > pastry > pie > [noun] > pie with fowls
pigeon pie1575
chicken pie1584
turkey-tomba1640
goose-pie1714
partridge pie1723
rook pie1738
pâté de foie gras1814
Strasbourg pie1838
a1640 J. Fletcher et al. Beggers Bush iv. v, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Mm2/1 Fatt Capon..And turkey toombs such honorable monuments.
turkey-trot n. a kind of ball-room dance introduced from U.S.; also, a fast jogging trot like that of a turkey.
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the world > movement > rate of motion > [noun] > on foot > pace between walking and running
trotc1386
dogtrota1450
jog1611
jog-trot1796
turkey-trot1839
sling-trot1853
fadge1873
shack1881
shog1885
jundy1894
society > leisure > dancing > types of dance or dancing > ballroom dancing > [noun] > others
quickstep1793
turkey-trot1839
racket1880
Military Schottische1882
veleta1900
military two-step1911
one-step1911
spot dance1911
Paul Jones1914
foxtrot1915
foxtrotting1916
Maxina1917
Boston two-step1918
slow foxtrot1918
twinkle1920
camel-walk1921
Charleston1923
slop1962
1839 Southern Literary Messenger 5 337/1 May-be I didn't set up a high turkey~trot, and peeled it like thunder.
1895 F. Remington Pony Tracks 187 He would run me off the plantation at a turkey trot if I did shoot.
1908 W. G. Davenport Butte & Montana 42 The light fantastic, the turkey trot and the pazamala were indulged in by all to a late hour.
1912 Nation 22 June 427/1 The Lord's prayer, followed by the ‘Turkey trot’.
1913 G. Grossmith in Daily Graphic 12 May 9/1 Adventurous persons will see the Turkey trot or Tango as they are danced in a cabaret, but not as danced in a Paris ball-room.
turkey-trotting adj.
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the world > movement > rate of motion > [adjective] > having specific rate on foot > pace between walking and running
shogging1581
jog-trot1797
slingingc1843
turkey-trotting1859
jog-trotting1870
1859 H. E. Taliaferro Fisher's River 36 You're a purty set uv ill-begotten, turkey~trottin' pukes, to raise a quarrel with a peaceubble man, and then run like a gang uv geese.
turkey vulture n. = turkey-buzzard n.
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the world > animals > birds > order Falconiformes (falcons, etc.) > family Cathartidae (New World vultures) > [noun] > cathartes aura (turkey vulture)
turkey-buzzard1672
gallinazo1772
zopilote1787
John Crowa1818
turkey vulture1823
1823 E. James Acct. Exped. Rocky Mts. I. 4 At evening we..saw..several turkey vultures.
1846 in Congress Documents XLI. 405 Amongst the birds [we have] the turkey vulture.
1908 Daily Chron. 18 Aug. 5/4 They are about the size of large barn-door fowls, with red heads (hence their name ‘turkey vultures’).
turkey-yelper n. a decoy call: = turkey-call n. (b). See also turkey-cock n., turkey-hen n.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > fowling > fowling equipment > [noun] > calls
quail-pipea1425
call1607
quail call1614
bird call1621
lark call1791
caller1845
yelper1884
turkey-yelper1895
1895 Outing 27 231/2 Matt drew from his pocket a ‘turkey-yelper’ and began to call.

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Turkey Day n. (also with lower case initials) U.S. colloquial Thanksgiving Day, in the United States.
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the world > time > particular time > an anniversary > [noun] > of battles, wars, treaties, etc.
day of truce1486
Evil May Dayc1590
Bonfire Night1661
Pope Day1769
Pope Night1773
the Fourth (of July)1779
Town Taking Day1788
Independence Day1791
Independent Day1803
Guy Fawkes day1825
Bastille Day1837
Trafalgar Day1837
Turkey Day1870
Canada Day1882
Juneteenth1890
flag-day1894
Patriots' Day1894
Remembrance Day1895
twelfth1896
Quatorze Juillet1899
quatorze1915
Armistice Day1918
Poppy Day1921
Remembrance Sunday1925
VJ-day1944
Commonwealth Day1958
1870 Hartford (Connecticut) Daily Courant 23 Nov. 2/1 To-morrow is turkey day, gobbler's day, or the day when the gobbler is gobbled.
1953 Tucson (Arizona) Daily Citizen 26 Nov. 31/9 (advt.) A very happy ‘Turkey Day’ to all you good friends and nabors.
2004 M. St. Amant Committed (2005) xxxi. 246 In the past, I've been known to hurl wedges of pumpkin pie at the TV screen if things aren't going my way..on Turkey Day.
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