turkey

Meanings

Plural: turkeys, turkies

Noun

• large gallinaceous bird with fan-shaped tail; widely domesticated for food
• 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
• a person who does something thoughtless or annoying
• flesh of large domesticated fowl usually roasted
• an event that fails badly or is totally ineffectual
  • "the first experiment was a real turkey"
• The guinea fowl (family Numididae).
• A bird in the genus Meleagris with a fan-shaped tail and wattled neck, especially the wild turkey (Meleagris gallopavo, now domesticated).
• The flesh or meat of this bird eaten as food.
• 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)).
• An act of throwing three strikes in a row.
• A patient feigning symptoms; a person faking illness or injury; a malingerer.
• A pack carried by a lumberman; a bindle; also, a large travel bag, a suitcase.
• A failure.
• A foolish or inept person.
• A prostitute.

Synonyms

addle pate, addle-brain, addlehead, airhead, Alternative spelling of dumbass., ass, assclown, asshat, asshead, asstard, asswipe, baboon, beanbrain, beetlebrain, beetlehead, berk, bimbo, birdbrain, blockhead, blubberbrain, Boeotian, bomb, bonehead, boob, bozo, brainlet, brickhead, bubble brain, bubblehead, bufflehead, buffoon, buttbreath, Charlie, chowderhead, chucklehead, chump, cittern-head, clod, clodpate, clot, clown, crackhead, cretin, cuckoo, deadhead, dildo, dim bulb, dimbo, dimbus, dimwit, ding dong, dingbat, dingleberry, dingwad, dip, dipshit, dipstick, doldrum, dolt, donkey dick, donut, doodle, doof, doofoid, doofus, dope, dork, drivel, drongo, drool bucket, dud, dullard, dumb bunny, dumb cluck, dumbbell, dumbfuck, dumbfucker, dumbhead, dumble, dumbling, dumbnut, dumbo, dumbshit, dummkopf, dummy, dunce, dunderhead, dunderpate, eejit, farthead, fathead, featherbrain, fenderhead, fleabrain, flop, fool, fopdoodle, fuck-knuckle, fucktard, fuckwit, galoot, gimboid, gomer, gonk, goober, goof, goofball, goofy, goose, goosecap, gorbuson, gudgeon, ha'porth, halfwit, hammerhead, ho, hoe, idiot, ignoramus, imbecile, inbred, jackaninny, jackass, jellybrain, jerk, joker, juggins, jughead, knothead, knucklehead, lackwit, lamebrain, log, loggerhead, lummox, lunk, lunkhead, maroon, meatball, meathead, Meleagris gallopavo, mental midget, mome, momo, mongoloid, mongtard, monkey, moron, mouth breather, muggins, mushhead, mutt, muttonhead, nimrod, nincompoop, ninny, ninnyhammer, nit, nitwit, noddy, noodlehead, numbskull, oaf, peabrain, peagoose, peckerhead, pigwidgeon, pillock, pinhead, plank, plonker, prat, put, putz, Republic of Turkey, retard, sap, saphead, schmo, shitbrain, shithead, shitneck, shitwit, silly, simp, simpleton, snapperhead, sot, space cadet, spanner, stupe, stupid, stupid-head, tard, thickhead, thicko, thickskull, tomfool, tonto, toolbox, tosspot, turkey, twat, twit, Vulgar:, wally, wantwit, wazzer, wazzock, witless wonder, yo-yo, zany

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