turkey
turkey
/ˈtɜːki/
1 countable a large bird that is often kept for its meat, eaten especially at Christmas in the UK and at Thanksgiving in the US We raise turkeys mainly for the Christmas market.
Collocations
adjective
verb + turkey
turkey + verb
turkey + noun
roast turkey
the traditional turkey with all the trimmings
3 countable (North American English, informal) a failure His latest movie is a real turkey.
4 countable (North American English, informal) a stupid person who is not useful to anyone Idioms
Word Origin
mid 16th cent.: short for turkeycock or turkeyhen, originally applied to the guineafowl (which was imported through Turkey), and then mistakenly to the American bird.