Noun: turkey
| Singular | turkey |
| Plural | turkeys |
Sample Sentences
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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. [1843 December 19, Charles Dickens, “Stave Five. The End of It.”, in A Christmas Carol. […], London: Chapman & Hall, […], →OCLC, page 157:]
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All week after Thanksgiving, I had turkey sandwiches for lunch.
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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. [[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:]
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That film was a turkey.
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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. [1981 August 8, Rob Schmieder, “Starring Bowie and Berlin”, in Gay Community News, page 11:]
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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. [2021 April 7, Christian Wolmar, “Electrification is a given... but comfort matters as well”, in RAIL, number 928, page 46:]
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The turkey cut in front of me and then berated me for running into him.
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Shorty think she slick, but everybody know she a turkey.
Nouns inflected like turkey
chimney,
honey,
attorney,
donkey,
galley,
monkey,
turkey,
pulley,
valley,
storey,
Etymology
Clipping of turkey-cock 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 Meleagris gallopavo.
Verbs referencing "turkey"
Irish Nouns
turcaí, Swedish Nouns
kalkonfilm.