turkey

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈtɜːki/    美 /ˈtɝki/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The guinea fowl (family Numididae). countable,obsolete
  2. A bird in the genus Meleagris with a fan-shaped tail and wattled neck.; A wild turkey of Meleagris gallopavo. countable
  3. A bird in the genus Meleagris with a fan-shaped tail and wattled neck.; A domesticated bird of Meleagris gallopavo domesticus. countable
    — 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.
  4. The flesh or meat of this bird eaten as food. uncountable
    — All week after Thanksgiving, I had turkey sandwiches for lunch.
  5. 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)). countable
  6. An act of throwing three strikes in a row. countable
  7. A patient feigning symptoms; a person faking illness or injury; a malingerer. countable,derogatory,slang
    — 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.
  8. A pack carried by a lumberman; a bindle; also, a large travel bag, a suitcase. Australia,US,countable,dated,slang
  9. A failure. US,countable,slang
    — That film was a turkey.
  10. A foolish or inept person. US,countable,derogatory,mildly,slang
    — The turkey cut in front of me and then berated me for running into him.
  11. A prostitute. derogatory,slang
    — Shorty think she slick, but everybody know she a turkey.

词形变化

turkeys plural turkies obsolete,plural turkie alternative,obsolete

词汇关系

下位词
turkey-cock turkey-hen Californian turkey ocellated turkey wild turkey
衍生词
Albuquerque turkey antiturkey Australian brushturkey Australian turkey brush turkey brush-turkey bush turkey Californian turkey Cape Cod turkey chuckey churkey cold turkey hand turkey jive turkey like turkeys voting for Christmas like turkeys voting for an early Christmas ocellated turkey plains turkey poor as Job's turkey scrub turkey stuffed like a turkey talk turkey Taunton turkey tofurkey turducken turken turkey bacon turkey berry turkey bowl turkey bowling turkeyburger turkey bush turkey buzzard turkey-chick turkey-cock turkey cock turkey coma turkey corn Turkey Creek Turkey Day turkeydom turkey drop turkey dropping turkeyfish turkey frill turkeyfurter turkey gobbler turkey ham turkey hen turkey-hen turkeyitis turkeyless turkey-like turkeyling turkeyman turkey moray turkey mullein turkey oak turkey pout turkeypox turkey shoot turkey-shoot turkey slap turkey tail turkey tick turkey trot turkey-trot turkey vulture turkey wing turkey X disease unturkey walk turkey water turkey wattle turkey
相关词
gobble

词源

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.
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