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turkey


turkey - 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

    • turkey - thesaurus

    bomb   dud   joker  


    View spelling list -ey words and learn about the word turkey in the Spellzone English spelling course, Unit 7. Long vowels e.g ee, ea or y? oa, o-e, or ow? u-e, ue, or ew?.

    Other Spellzone word lists: Animals, poultry
    Food, meat

    Scrabble score for turkey

    t is 1 u is 1 r is 1 k is 5 e is 1 y is 4
    Scrabble score = 13

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