Unscramble turkey

Definition of turkey

noun:

• large gallinaceous bird with fan-shaped tail; widely domesticated for food. Synonyms: Meleagris gallopavo.
• 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. Synonyms: Republic of Turkey, Turkey.
• a person who does something thoughtless or annoying; "some joker is blocking the driveway". Synonyms: joker.
• flesh of large domesticated fowl usually roasted.
• an event that fails badly or is totally ineffectual; "the first experiment was a real turkey", "the meeting was a dud as far as new business was concerned". Synonyms: bomb, dud.

Related words

gobbler, tom.

Words nearby

turnkey.

Rhymes with

jerky, murky, perky, quirky.