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Turkey   /tˈərki/   Listen
Turkey

noun
(pl. turkeys)
1.
Large gallinaceous bird with fan-shaped tail; widely domesticated for food.  Synonym: Meleagris gallopavo.
2.
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.  Synonym: Republic of Turkey.
3.
A person who does something thoughtless or annoying.  Synonym: joker.
4.
Flesh of large domesticated fowl usually roasted.
5.
An event that fails badly or is totally ineffectual.  Synonyms: bomb, dud.  "The meeting was a dud as far as new business was concerned"



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"Turkey" Quotes from Famous Books



... a general so affable and pleasant, for he had seen some lieutenants and captains strut like turkey-cocks, because they wore straps on their shoulders. Paul saluted the General, and said, "I am ordered to report ...
— Winning His Way • Charles Carleton Coffin

... the people were simple and primitive. The costume of the men was a raccoon-skin cap, linsey hunting-shirt, buck-skin leggings and moccasons, with a butcher-knife in the belt. The women wore cotton or woollen frocks, striped with blue dye and Turkey-red, and spun, woven, and made with their own hands; they went barefooted and bareheaded, except on Sundays, when they covered the head with a cotton handkerchief. It is told of a certain John Grammar, for many years a representative ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 7, No. 43, May, 1861 • Various

... o'ercoming ought; Poor patriots perish, persecution's pest! Quite quiet Quakers "Quarter, quarter," quest; Reason returns, religion, right, redounds, Suwarow stop such sanguinary sounds! Truce to thee, Turkey, terror to thy train! Unwise, unjust, unmerciful Ukraine! Vanish vile vengeance, vanish victory vain! Why wish we warfare? wherefore welcome won Xerxes, Nantippus, Navier, Xenophon? Yield, ye young Yaghier yeomen, yield your yell! Zimmerman's, Zoroaster's, Zeno's zeal ...
— The Book of Humorous Verse • Various

... Government entertain, your Excellency is instructed to seek an audience of the Sultan, and to explain to His Highness, in the most forcible terms, the feelings of the British Government, and the consequences, so injurious to Turkey, which a disregard for those feelings will involve. Her Majesty's Government are so anxious for the continuance of a good understanding with Turkey, and that the Porte should entitle itself to their good offices in the hour of need, that they wish to leave ...
— Correspondence Relating to Executions in Turkey for Apostacy from Islamism • Various

... autumn of 1875, the very date of my tour, a paragraph appeared in a Pest newspaper stating that a young girl of great beauty in the neighbourhood of Temesvar, in the Banat of Hungary, had been secretly carried off into Turkey without the knowledge or consent of her parents. It was further stated that these scandalous proceedings were of very frequent occurrence in the border provinces. For some years past the supply of beautiful Circassians has been deficient, it is said, so doubtless the harems of Constantinople ...
— Round About the Carpathians • Andrew F. Crosse


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