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tuhkey

tuhkey is the pronunciation spelling of turkey.

Meaning of turkey

Noun

turkey (plural turkeys or (obsolete) turkies)

  1. (countable, obsolete, originally) The guinea fowl (family Numididae).
  2. (countable) A wild turkey of Meleagris gallopavo.
  3. (countable) A domesticated bird of Meleagris gallopavo domesticus.
    • It was a Turkey! He never could have stood upon his legs, that bird. He would have snapped 'em short off in a minute, like sticks of sealing-wax.1843 December 19, Charles Dickens, “Stave Five. The End of It.”, in A Christmas Carol. […], London: Chapman & Hall, […], →OCLC, page 157
  4. (uncountable) The flesh or meat of this bird eaten as food.
    • All week after Thanksgiving, I had turkey sandwiches for lunch.
  5. (countable) 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)).
  6. (countable) An act of throwing three strikes in a row.

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Forms of tuhkey

pluraltuhkeys

Questions about tuhkey

What is tuhkey the pronunciation spelling of?
Tuhkey is the pronunciation spelling of turkey.

Words near tuhkey in the dictionary

  1. Tugwell
  2. Tugwells
  3. tuh
  4. Tuhelj
  5. Tuhill
  6. tuhkey
  7. tuhon
  8. tuhons
  9. tuhualite
  10. tui
  11. tui na

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