turkey

ˈtɜːki

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#1·7h ago

(countable, originally, now, _, obsolete) The guinea fowl (family ).

All week after Thanksgiving, I had turkey sandwiches for lunch.

Origin: and turkey-hen, originally denoting the guinea fowl, an African bird that was first imported to Europe through Turkey, but there is some controversy over the origin. The word was then transferred to the superficially similar North American bird. Origin information sourced from Wiktionary contributors (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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#2·7h ago

(countable) A bird in the genus with a fan-shaped tail and wattled neck.

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.

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#3·7h ago

(uncountable) The flesh or meat of this bird eaten as food.

That film was a turkey.

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