turkey

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A large bird kept on farms for its meat, often eaten at holiday meals.

   We are roasting a turkey for Thanksgiving dinner.

2. 2
   noun

   The meat of this bird eaten as food.

   All week after Thanksgiving, I had turkey sandwiches for lunch.

3. 3
   noun

   Something that fails completely, especially a film or show.

   The critics agreed that the movie was a complete turkey.

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).

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