Turkey
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
turkey/ˈtɜːki/
▶noun (pl. turkeys)
- 1 a large mainly domesticated game bird native to North America, having a bald head and (in the male) red wattles. [Meleagris gallopavo.]
- 2 informal something that is highly unsuccessful or of very poor quality.
■ a stupid or inept person.
– phrases
talk turkey N. Amer. informal discuss frankly and openly.
talk turkey N. Amer. informal discuss frankly and openly.
– origin C16: short for turkeycock or turkeyhen, orig. applied to the guineafowl (which was imported through Turkey), and then erroneously to the American bird.
'Turkey' also found in these Oxford entries:
Aegean
- aga
- angora
- bread sauce
- brush-turkey
- butterball
- capercaillie
- casaba
- cold turkey
- crescent
- fowl
- gobbledegook
- Iznik
- kilim
- kiosk
- kurbash
- Kurd
- kurus
- lira
- meander
- meerschaum
- odalisque
- Punchinello
- rise
- scrub-turkey
- stag
- sultan
- TR
- Turco-
- Turk
- turkey
- turkey buzzard
- turkeycock
- turkey oak
- Turkey red
- turkey shoot
- turkey trot
- turkey vulture
- Turkish
- Turkish Van
- vizier
- wattle
- yurt
