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turkey Definition

tur·key (tʉr′kē)

noun pl. -·keys or -·key

  1. ☆
    1. any of a family (Meleagrididae) of large, gallinaceous North American birds with a small, naked head and spreading tail, including a wild or domesticated species (Meleagris gallopavo) bred as poultry and a wild species (Agriocharis ocellata) of Central America, with eyespots on the tail
    2. the flesh of a turkey
  2. ☆ Slang a failure: said esp. of a theatrical production
  3. ☆ Slang an inept, stupid, or unpleasant person
  4. ☆ Bowling three strikes in a row

Etymology: earlier Turkey-cock, term orig. applied to the guinea fowl, sometimes imported through Turkey and for a time identified with the Am fowl

turkey Idioms

talk turkey

☆

Informal to talk bluntly and directly

Turkey Definition

Tur·key (tʉr′kē)

country occupying Asia Minor & a SE part of the Balkan Peninsula: 300,947 sq mi (779,450 sq km); pop. 56,473,000; cap. Ankara

turkey Synonyms

turkey

n.

turkey cock, turkey hen, bird, fowl, Thanksgiving bird, Christmas bird, gobbler, turkey gobbler, wild turkey, domestic turkey, cock of India, hen of India, poule d'Inde (French), gallina de India (Spanish), gallo, gallina d'India (both Italian), Indianische Henn, Huhn (both German).

Types and breeds of turkeys include: bronze turkey, buff turkey, black turkey, slate turkey, white turkey, reddish brown turkey, domestic turkey, Cambridgeshire turkey, Colorado turkey, crested turkey, Honduras turkey, Mexican turkey, native turkey, New England wild turkey, Norfolk turkey, ocellated turkey, wild turkey, brush turkey, water turkey.

turkey Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • defrost: Defrost the turkey in its original wrapper on a tray in the refrigerator 24 hours for every 5 pounds.
  • cook: Remember don't leave cooked turkey out of the fridge too long.
  • roast: The roasted turkey is making more noise than your guests.
  • carve: On Christmas Day itself, at three o'clock appropriately, a chef demonstrated how to carve a turkey!
  • dice: Place the diced turkey into a shallow dish and pour over the yogurt mixture.

Adjective modifier

  • leftover: Remember you will have to store leftover turkey in the fridge afterward.
  • free-range: Mark Winter, Horse and Groom, Rushlake Green, East Sussex Cooking tip: Use free-range turkeys, which have a good flavor.
  • cold: The only cure for hard drugs is cold turkey.
  • frozen: Meanwhile, Mo attempts to defrost her frozen turkey in the bath.
  • wild: Wild turkeys, however, can fly for short bursts.

Modifies a noun

  • twizzlers: Jamie Oliver was trying to wean children away from eating chips, pizza, burgers and turkey twizzlers on to healthier recipes.
  • rhinotracheitis: Each dose of vaccine contains at least 10 2.5 TCID 50 turkey rhinotracheitis vaccine virus.
  • baster: Maybe I'll slip some diazepam into the turkey baster next year.
  • leftover: It is an excellent way to use turkey leftovers.
  • vulture: The skies above heave with eagles, hawks, buzzards and turkey vultures.
  • breast: Add enough water to totally cover the turkey breast by at least 1/2 inch.

Noun used with modifier

  • roast: In the lovely decorated house, He smelled a lovely roast turkey.
  • multitrip: Forming that would holiday insurance multitrip turkey connecting dealers with to an amount.
  • bronze: I have a standard bronze turkey that is acting funny.
  • multi: Number of gallons per-capita holiday insurance multi trip turkey income may.
Turkey Quotes

A client is fain to hire a lawyer to keep from the injury of other lawyersöas Christians that travel inTurkeyare forced to hire Janissaries, to protect them from the insolencies of otherTurks.

—Butler, Samuel

InTurkey it was always1952, in Malaysia1937; Afghanistan was1910 and Bolivia1949. It is twenty years ago inthe Soviet Union, ten in Norway, five in France.It is always last year in Australia and next week in Japan.

—Theroux, Paul Edward

His writing bears the same relation to poetry which a Turkey carpet bears to a picture.

—1st Baron

turkey Quotes

It was a turkey! He could never have stood upon his legs, that bird. He would have snapped 'em off short in a minute, like sticks of sealing-wax.

—Dickens, CharlesJohn Huffam

A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.It certainly may secure all the myrtle and turkey part of it.

—Austen,Jane