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turkey
I. turkey noun
(-s)
Usage: usually capitalized
Etymology: Middle English, from Turkey, country of southeast Europe and southwest Asia
obsolete : turquoise 1
II. tur·key \ˈtərkē, ˈtə̄k-, ˈtəik-, -ki\ adjective
Usage: usually capitalized
Etymology: from Turkey, country of southeast Europe and southwest Asia
1. : of or from Turkey : of the kind or style prevalent in Turkey : turkish
2. : believed to be of Turkish origin
III. turkey noun
(-s)
Usage: often attributive
Etymology: short for turkey-cock
1. : a bird of the family Meleagrididae: as
a.
(1) : a large American bird (Meleagris gallopavo) originally distributed from southern Mexico throughout much of the eastern and central United States and northward into Canada but extinct over much of the northern and western part of its range though reintroduced as a game bird in some regions and successfully reestablished as far north as Pennsylvania, occurring in several subspecies in various parts of its range, and having typically a bronzy lustrous plumage, a naked carunculate head, and a tail that in the male is spread fanlike in display
(2) : any of various domesticated birds derived primarily from a Mexican variety of the wild turkey and raised chiefly for their flesh — see beltsville small white, bourbon red, bronze, narragansett
b. : ocellated turkey
2. Australia
a. : a bustard (Choriotis australis)
b. : brush turkey
3. : a lumberman's kit or itinerant worker's pack
< carrying a long-handled double-bitted ax and a turkey of clothes across his shoulder — J.H.Stuart >
4.
a. : a theatrical production that is a failure : flop
< a turkey about a rich actor who financed a play to star himself — Stanley Frank >
b. : something that has a conspicuous lack of success
< the idea was a complete turkey — Mac Davis >
5. : practical action without delay or evasion : straight facts leading to a realistic solution : business — usually used in the phrase talk turkey
< will be willing to talk turkey … and to end the war — Kiplinger Washington Letter >
6. : three successive strikes in bowling — called also triple
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IV. turkey noun
(-s)
Usage: usually capitalized
: turkey leather
V. turkey noun
: a stupid, foolish, or inept person |