turkies

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turkies

  1. plural of turkie
  2. (obsolete) plural of turkey
    • 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XXI, in Romance and Reality. [], volume II, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, [], →OCLC, page 314:
      ...another man passes the same period, and then the learned doctor sends an elaborate essay to a society, stating that the last ten years of his life have been devoted to a laborious comparison of geese and turkies, which has produced in his mind the conviction that the goose is a calumniated bird, the turkey being infinitely more stupid.

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