turkey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɜːki/
ipa: /ˈtɝki/
homophone: Turkey
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)ki
Forms: form: turkeys
form: turkies
form: turkie
Etymology: Clipping of turkey-cock and turkey-hen, originally denoting the guinea fowl, an African bird that was first imported to Europe through Turkey. The word was then transferred to the superficially similar North American bird Meleagris gallopavo.
Senses: qualifier: originally
glosses: The guinea fowl (family Numididae).
examples: text: It was a Turkey! He never could have stood upon his legs, that bird. He would have snapped 'em short off in a minute, like sticks of sealing-wax.
ref: 1843 December 19, Charles Dickens, “Stave Five. The End of It.”, in A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas, London: Chapman & Hall, […], →OCLC, page 157:
glosses: A bird in the genus Meleagris with a fan-shaped tail and wattled neck, especially the wild turkey (Meleagris gallopavo, now domesticated).
examples: text: All week after Thanksgiving, I had turkey sandwiches for lunch.
glosses: The flesh or meat of this bird eaten as food.
glosses: With a distinguishing word: a bird resembling the Meleagris gallopavo (for example, the brush turkey or bush turkey (Alectura lathami), and the water turkey (Anhinga anhinga)).
topics: bowling
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: An act of throwing three strikes in a row.
examples: text: Mumford (1970) noted that the terms ‘crock’, ‘gomer’, and ‘turkey’, were sometimes utilized by interns to designate different types of undesirable patients, and sometimes used synonymously.
ref: [1976, Stephen Charles Frankel, Emergency Medical Care in an Urban Area (Ph.D. dissertation in Anthropology), Berkeley, Calif.: University of California, Berkeley, →OCLC, page 118:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A patient feigning symptoms; a person faking illness or injury; a malingerer.
glosses: A pack carried by a lumberman; a bindle; also, a large travel bag, a suitcase.
examples: text: That film was a turkey.
text: And despite the gross incompetence of Hemmings' direction, the ludicrous script, and the heavy-handed acting, there remains a stellar reason to see and enjoy Just a Gigolo: David Bowie. David Bowie is a great actor, and not even this turkey can obscure that fact.
ref: 1981 August 8, Rob Schmieder, “Starring Bowie and Berlin”, in Gay Community News, page 11:
text: There were a few turkeys. In the rush to present a futuristic vision, the railways' heritage was largely forgotten and we ended up with new stations at Euston and at Coventry, its brash sidekick which I particularly loathe, although (of course) it won design awards.
ref: 2021 April 7, Christian Wolmar, “Electrification is a given... but comfort matters as well”, in RAIL, number 928, page 46:
synonyms: flop
glosses: A failure.
examples: text: The turkey cut in front of me and then berated me for running into him.
synonyms: word: addle-brain
word: addlehead
word: addle pate
word: airhead
word: baboon
word: beanbrain
word: beetlebrain
word: beetlehead
word: berk
word: bimbo
word: birdbrain
word: blockhead
word: blubberbrain
word: bonehead
word: Boeotian
word: boob
word: bozo
word: brainlet
word: brickhead
word: bubblehead
word: bubble brain
word: bufflehead
word: buffoon
word: Charlie
raw_tags: with "right" and/or "proper"
word: chowderhead
word: chucklehead
word: chump
word: cittern-head
word: clod
word: clodpate
word: clot
word: clown
word: crackhead
word: cretin
word: cuckoo
word: deadhead
word: dimbo
word: dim bulb
word: dimbus
word: dimwit
word: dingbat
word: ding dong
word: dingleberry
word: dingwad
word: dip
word: dipstick
word: doldrum
word: dolt
word: donut
word: doodle
word: doof
word: doofoid
word: doofus
word: dope
word: dork
word: drivel
word: drongo
word: drool bucket
word: dullard
word: dumb bunny
word: dumbbell
word: dumb cluck
word: dumbhead
word: dumble
word: dumbling
word: dumbnut
word: dumbo
word: dummkopf
word: dummy
word: dunce
word: dunderhead
word: dunderpate
word: eejit
word: fathead
word: featherbrain
word: fenderhead
word: fleabrain
word: fool
word: fopdoodle
word: galoot
word: gimboid
word: gomer
word: gonk
word: goober
word: goof
word: goofball
word: goofy
word: goose
word: goosecap
word: gorbuson
word: gudgeon
word: halfwit
word: ha'porth
word: hammerhead
word: idiot
word: ignoramus
word: imbecile
word: inbred
word: jackaninny
word: jellybrain
word: jerk
word: juggins
word: jughead
word: knothead
word: knucklehead
word: lackwit
word: lamebrain
word: log
word: loggerhead
word: lummox
word: lunk
word: lunkhead
word: maroon
word: meatball
word: meathead
word: mental midget
word: mome
word: momo
word: mongoloid
word: mongtard
word: monkey
word: moron
word: mouth breather
word: muggins
word: mushhead
word: muttonhead
word: mutt
word: nimrod
word: nincompoop
word: ninny
word: ninnyhammer
word: nit
word: nitwit
word: noddy
word: noodlehead
word: numbskull
word: oaf
word: peabrain
word: peagoose
word: pillock
word: pigwidgeon
word: pinhead
word: plank
word: plonker
word: prat
word: put
word: putz
word: retard
word: sap
word: saphead
word: schmo
word: silly
word: simp
word: simpleton
word: snapperhead
word: sot
word: space cadet
word: spanner
word: stupe
word: stupid
word: stupid-head
word: tomfool
word: tard
word: thickhead
word: thickskull
word: thicko
word: tonto
word: toolbox
word: tosspot
word: turkey
word: twit
word: wally
word: wantwit
word: wazzer
word: wazzock
word: witless wonder
word: yo-yo
word: zany
word: Vulgar:
word: ass
word: assclown
word: asshat
word: asshead
word: asstard
word: asswipe
word: buttbreath
word: dildo
word: dipshit
word: donkey dick
word: Alternative spelling of dumbass.
word: dumbfuck
word: dumbfucker
word: dumbshit
word: farthead
word: fuck-knuckle
word: fucktard
word: fuckwit
word: jackass
word: peckerhead
word: shitbrain
word: shithead
word: shitneck
word: shitwit
word: twat
glosses: A foolish or inept person.
synonyms: ho
hoe
qualifier: African-American Vernacular; Baltimore; African-American Vernacular; Baltimore
glosses: A prostitute.
Hyponyms: word: turkey-cock
word: turkey-hen
word: Californian turkey
word: ocellated turkey
word: wild turkey
Derived terms: word: Albuquerque turkey
taxonomic: Alectura lathami
word: Australian brushturkey
word: Australian turkey
word: brush-turkey
taxonomic: Alectura lathami
word: brush turkey
alt: Alectura lathami or Ardeotis australis
word: bush turkey
taxonomic: Meleagris californica
word: Californian turkey
word: Cape Cod turkey
word: churkey
word: cold turkey
word: go full turkey
word: hand turkey
word: jive turkey
word: like turkeys voting for Christmas
word: like turkeys voting for an early Christmas
taxonomic: Meleagris ocellata
word: ocellated turkey
taxonomic: Ardeotis australis
word: plains turkey
word: poor as Job's turkey
taxonomic: Alectura lathami
word: scrub turkey
word: stuffed like a turkey
word: talk turkey
word: Taunton turkey
word: turducken
word: turken
word: turkey bacon
word: turkey berry
word: turkey bowl
word: turkey bowling
word: turkey bush
word: turkey buzzard
word: turkey-chick
word: turkey-cock
word: turkey cock
word: turkey coma
word: turkey corn
word: Turkey Creek
word: Turkey Day
word: turkey drop
word: turkey dropping
word: turkey frill
word: turkey gobbler
word: turkey ham
word: turkey hen
word: turkey-hen
word: turkey-like
word: turkeyling
word: turkey mullein
word: turkey oak
word: turkey pout
word: turkey-shoot
word: turkey shoot
word: turkey slap
word: turkey tail
word: turkey tick
word: turkey tones
word: turkey-trot
word: turkey trot
word: turkey vulture
word: turkey X disease
word: walk turkey
taxonomic: Anhinga anhinga
word: water turkey
word: wattle turkey
Related terms: english: to make the sound of a turkey
translation: to make the sound of a turkey
word: gobble