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say it: TUR-kee
turkey is a noun meaning "large gallinaceous bird with fan-shaped tail; widely domesticated for food". It is pronounced /ˈtɝki/ — TUR-kee. It carries 5 recorded senses.
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
“some joker is blocking the driveway”
flesh of large domesticated fowl usually roasted
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for turkey come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.