adj
Meaning 1
Synonym of Turkey red (“dyed or colored Turkey red”).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: Turkey red
Antonyms: none provided
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adj
Synonym of Turkey red (“dyed or colored Turkey red”).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Synonyms: Turkey red
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Synonym of Turkey blue (“dyed or colored Turkey blue”).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
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Synonyms: Turkey blue
Antonyms: none provided
name
A country located in Eastern Thrace in Southeastern Europe and Anatolia in West Asia. Official name: Republic of Türkiye. Capital: Ankara.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Synonyms: Türkiye, Turkiye, Republic of Turkey
Antonyms: none provided
name
Synonym of Ottoman Empire, a former empire in Europe, Asia, Africa. Capital: Istanbul.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: historical
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Synonyms: Ottoman Empire
Antonyms: none provided
name
A city in Hall County, Texas, United States.
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noun
The guinea fowl (family Numididae).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, obsolete
Qualifier: originally
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A bird in the genus Meleagris with a fan-shaped tail and wattled neck.
A wild turkey of Meleagris gallopavo.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable
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Antonyms: none provided
noun
A bird in the genus Meleagris with a fan-shaped tail and wattled neck.
A domesticated bird of Meleagris gallopavo domesticus.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
The flesh or meat of this bird eaten as food.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
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)).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable
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Synonyms: none provided
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noun
An act of throwing three strikes in a row.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable
Topics: bowling, hobbies, lifestyle, sports
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A patient feigning symptoms; a person faking illness or injury; a malingerer.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, derogatory, slang
Topics: medicine, sciences
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A pack carried by a lumberman; a bindle; also, a large travel bag, a suitcase.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Australia, US, countable, dated, slang
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A failure.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: US, countable, slang
Synonyms: flop
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A foolish or inept person.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: US, countable, derogatory, mildly, slang, usually
Synonyms: addle-brain, addlehead, addle pate, airhead, baboon, beanbrain, beetlebrain, beetlehead, berk, bimbo, birdbrain, blockhead, blubberbrain, bonehead, Boeotian, boob, bozo, brainlet, brickhead, bubblehead, bubble brain, bufflehead, buffoon, Charlie, chowderhead, chucklehead, chump, cittern-head, clod, clodpate, clot, clown, crackhead, cretin, cuckoo, deadhead, dimbo, dim bulb, dimbus, dimwit, dingbat, ding dong, dingleberry, dingwad, dip, dipstick, doldrum, dolt, donut, doodle, doof, doofoid, doofus, dope, dork, drivel, drongo, drool bucket, dullard, dumb bunny, dumbbell, dumb cluck, dumbhead, dumble, dumbling, dumbnut, dumbo, dummkopf, dummy, dunce, dunderhead, dunderpate, eejit, fathead, featherbrain, fenderhead, fleabrain, fool, fopdoodle, galoot, gimboid, gomer, gonk, goober, goof, goofball, goofy, goon, goose, goosecap, gorbuson, gudgeon, halfwit, ha'porth, hammerhead, idiot, ignoramus, imbecile, inbred, jackaninny, jellybrain, jerk, juggins, jughead, knothead, knucklehead, lackwit, lamebrain, log, loggerhead, lummox, lunk, lunkhead, maroon, meatball, meathead, mental midget, mome, momo, mongoloid, mongtard, monkey, moron, mouth breather, muggins, mushhead, muttonhead, mutt, nimrod, nincompoop, ninny, ninnyhammer, nit, nitwit, noddy, noodlehead, numbskull, oaf, peabrain, peagoose, pillock, pigwidgeon, pinhead, plank, plonker, prat, put, putz, retard, sap, saphead, schmo, silly, simp, simpleton, smooth brain, snapperhead, sot, space cadet, spanner, stupe, stupid, stupid-head, tard, thickhead, thickskull, thicko, tomfool, tonto, toolbox, tosspot, turkey, twit, wally, wantwit, wazzer, wazzock, witless wonder, yo-yo, zany, Vulgar:, ass, assclown, asshat, asshead, asstard, asswipe, buttbreath, dildo, dipshit, donkey dick, Alternative spelling of dumbass., dumbfuck, dumbfucker, dumbshit, farthead, fuck-knuckle, fucktard, fuckwit, jackass, peckerhead, shitbrain, shithead, shitneck, shitwit, twat
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A prostitute.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: derogatory, slang
Qualifier: African-American Vernacular; Baltimore; African-American Vernacular; Baltimore
Synonyms: ho, hoe
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Synonym of Turkey red (“a vibrant red dye or its color”).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: Turkey red
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Synonym of Turkey blue (“a deep indigo dye or its color”).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: Turkey blue
Antonyms: none provided
noun
large gallinaceous bird with fan-shaped tail; widely domesticated for food
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: Meleagris gallopavo
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: domestic fowl, fowl, poultry
Narrower terms: turkey cock, gobbler, tom, tom turkey
noun
an event that fails badly or is totally ineffectual
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: bomb, dud
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: flop, bust, fizzle
noun
flesh of large domesticated fowl usually roasted
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: poultry
noun
a Eurasian republic in Asia Minor and the Balkans; on the collapse of the Ottoman Empire in 1918, the Young Turks, led by Kemal Ataturk, established a republic in 1923
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: Republic of Turkey
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: country, state, land
noun
a person who does something thoughtless or annoying
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: joker
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: unpleasant person, disagreeable person
History
From Middle English Turkye, from Anglo-Norman Turkye, Medieval Latin Turcia, from Turcus (“Turk”), from Byzantine Greek Τοῦρκος (Toûrkos), from Classical Persian تُرْک (turk), from Middle Persian [script needed] (twlk' /turk/), from Old Turkic 𐱅𐰇𐰼𐰜 (t2ür2k̥). By surface analysis, Turke + -y.
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.
Across languages
570 source translations are retained for this English entry.