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Definition of Tom turkey
1. Noun. Male turkey.
Generic synonyms: Meleagris Gallopavo, Turkey
Derivative terms: Gobble
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tom Turkey
Literary usage of Tom turkey
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Library of Choice Literature and Encyclopaedia of Universal Authorship by Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Charles Gibbon (1893)
"says the parson: 'why, ( here's the other turkey, out there by the door; and a
fine bird, too, he ia.' "Sure enough, there was the old tom-turkey a ..."
2. A Library of American Literature from the Earliest Settlement to the Present by Edmund Clarence Stedman, Arthur Stedman (1894)
"says the parson : ' why, there's the other turkey, out there by the door; and a
fine bird, too, he is.' " Sure enough, there was the old tom-turkey a ..."
3. The world's wit and humor: an encyclopedia of the classic wit and humor of by Lionel Strachey (1905)
"says the parson: 'why, there's the other turkey, out there by the door; and a
fine bird, too, he is.' "Sure enough, there was the old tom-turkey a-struttin' ..."
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