Turkey

Noun

 * 1) Either of two species of bird in the genus Meleagris with fan-shaped tails and wattled necks.
 * 2)  A failure.
 * That film was a turkey.
 * 1)  A foolish or inept person.
 * The turkey cut in front of me and then berated me for running into him.
 * 1)  The act of throwing three strikes in a row.

Synonyms

 * Meleagris gallopavo, Meleagris ocellata
 * flop
 * fool, idiot, jerk,  plonker,  prat

Derived terms

 * Australian turkey
 * brush turkey
 * bush turkey
 * cold turkey


 * go full turkey
 * scrub turkey
 * talk turkey
 * turkey buzzard
 * turkey nest


 * turkey shoot
 * turkey trot
 * turkeys voting for Christmas
 * turkey vulture
 * water turkey

Related terms

 * turkey-cock
 * wild turkey
 * talk turkey

Verbs for Turkey
carve—; dine on—; domesticate—; gun for —; market—s; pluck—; roast—; savor—; spice—; —dances about; —displays feathers; —s flock; —flutters; —gobbles; —gyrates; —hovers; —preens; —rakes; — ranges; —stirs up; —strokes; —struts; — symbolizes; —wheels.

Thesaurus
Bantam, Cornish hen, banty, barn-door fowl, barnyard fowl, biddy, bomb, broiler, brooder, broody hen, bust, caille, canard, caneton, capon, chanticleer, chapon, chick, chickabiddy, chicken, chicky, cock, cockerel, dindon, domestic fowl, drake, duck, duckling, dull thud, dunghill fowl, faisan, fizzle, flat failure, flop, floperoo, fowl, frost, fryer, game fowl, gander, gobbler, goose, gosling, grouse, guinea cock, guinea fowl, guinea hen, hen, hen turkey, lemon, oie, partlet, partridge, pheasant, pigeon, pigeonneau, poulard, poulet, poult, poultry, pullet, quail, roaster, rooster, setting hen, spring chicken, squab, stewing chicken, tom, tom turkey, total loss, turkey gobbler, turkey-cock, volaille, washout, wild duck

Etymology
From "Turkey traders", who imported guinea fowl into Europe in the 16th century. Meleagris ocellata were thought to resemble guinea fowl.

Translations

 * Afrikaans: kalkoen
 * Albanian: gjeli i detit
 * Amuzgo: chölö
 * Arabic: ديك هندي, ديك رومي, ديك الحبش
 * Armenian:
 * Azeri:
 * Basque: indioilar, indioilo
 * Belarusian: дзікая індычка
 * Bosnian: ,
 * Breton: yar-Indez, yer-Indez ; kilhog-Indez , kilheien-Indez
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: gall dindi, polla d'índia
 * Chamicuro:
 * Chechen: москал (moskal)
 * Cherokee:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Min Nan:
 * Crimean Tatar: körel, köküş, müsür
 * Croatian:
 * Czech: ,
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Faroese:
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * Friulian: dindi, dindiat
 * Galician: pavo
 * Georgian: ინდაური
 * German:, Truthenne, ,
 * Greek: ,
 * Hebrew: תרנגול הודו
 * Hindi: पीरू
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Igbo: toro toro
 * Indonesian: kalkun, ayam kalkun, ajam belanda
 * Irish: turcaí
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:, , , ターキー
 * Kazakh: (khoraz)
 * Khmer: (mon barang)
 * Korean: 칠면조
 * Kurdish: ,
 * Ladin: tachin


 * Latvian: tītars
 * Limburgish: sjroet
 * Lithuanian:
 * Low Saxon: Kalkuun, Kuun , Kuunhahn , Puut
 * Lower Sorbian: truta, trutawa, turk
 * Luxembourgish: Schnuddelhong
 * Macedonian: мисирка, мисир
 * Malagasy: vorontsiloza
 * Malay: ayam Belanda
 * Maltese:
 * Mongolian:
 * Nahuatl: xuehxolotl
 * Navajo:
 * Norwegian:
 * Occitan: piòt
 * Persian:
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Rapanui: koro koro
 * Romani: tudkano, tudka
 * Romanian: curcan, curcă
 * Romansch: galdin
 * Russian:, , индюшка
 * Sami: kálkon
 * Sardinian: dindu, caboni de ěndias, pudda d'ěndia
 * Scottish Gaelic: coileach-Frangach,  cearc-Fhrangach
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic: ћурка, ћуран
 * Roman: ćurka, ćuran
 * Slovak: moriak, morka
 * Slovene: ,
 * Spanish:, ,  ,  ,  ,
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: pabo
 * Telugu: టర్కీ కోడి (Tarkee kODi)
 * Thai: ไก่งวง
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: індик
 * Upper Sorbian: truta, trutak
 * Vietnamese:
 * Volapük:, hidindun,  jidindun
 * Welsh: twrci
 * West Frisian: kalkoen
 * Wolof: koppin
 * Yiddish: אינדיק


 * Bulgarian:
 * French: (movie) navet


 * Russian: ,
 * Spanish: ,


 * Bulgarian:
 * Danish: fjols
 * Finnish:, ,
 * French: (woman)
 * German: (woman)
 * Irish: : amadán, óinseach


 * Lithuanian:
 * Portuguese: bobo, tolo , burro (Brazil)
 * Russian: ,
 * Slovak:
 * Spanish: