单词 | wild turkey |
释义 | Wild Turkeyn. The proprietary name of a brand of whisky; a drink or glassful of this. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > distilled drink > whisky > [noun] > other whiskies peat-reek1792 Monongahela1805 rye?1808 corn1820 small-still (whisky)1822 bald-face1840 corn-whiskey1843 raw1844 Bourbon1846 sod corn1857 valley tan1860 straight1862 forty-rod whisky1863 rock and rye1878 sour-mash1885 grain-whisky1887 forty rod lightning1889 Suntory1942 Wild Turkey1949 mash1961 pot still1994 1949 Official Gaz. (U.S. Patent Office) 26 Apr. 1007 Austin Nichols & Co., Incorporated, Brooklyn, N.Y... Wild Turkey... For Whiskey. Claims use since May 29, 1942. 1968 Trade Marks Jrnl. 20 Mar. 448/1 Wild Turkey 917,193. Wines, spirits (beverages) and liqueurs. Five Mills Limited, 37 Grafton Way..London W.1; Merchants. 1975 New Yorker 20 Jan. 30/1 I know—it took me seven weeks to do a page and a half the last time, but I was into the Wild Turkey then, and you'd be amazed how fast I can write when my pencil can actually form legible letters. 1979 J. Crosby Party of Year (1980) viii. 48 He poured Cassidy another Wild Turkey. 1980 J. Krantz Princess Daisy xvi. 258 Two bottles of Soave Bolla and one of Wild Turkey bourbon. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online December 2021). > as lemmaswild turkey b. wild turkey, the wild original of the domestic fowl; commonly applied to the North American bird: see above and sense 3. ΘΚΠ 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). < as lemmas |
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