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turkeyitis

turkeyitis noun: the uncomfortable feeling resulting from eating too much turkey, for example at Thanksgiving or Christmas.

Noun

turkeyitis (uncountable)

  1. (humorous, rare, slang) The uncomfortable feeling resulting from eating too much turkey, for example at Thanksgiving or Christmas.

Origin of turkeyitis

From turkey + -itis.

Questions about turkeyitis

What does turkeyitis mean?
Turkeyitis means the uncomfortable feeling resulting from eating too much turkey, for example at Thanksgiving or Christmas.
What part of speech is turkeyitis?
Turkeyitis is a noun.

Words near turkeyitis in the dictionary

  1. turkeyfoot
  2. turkeyfurter
  3. turkeyfurters
  4. turkeyhen
  5. turkeyhens
  6. turkeyitis
  7. turkeyless
  8. turkeylike
  9. turkeyling
  10. turkeylings
  11. turkeyman

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