- [countable]
a large bird that is often kept for its meat, eaten especially at Christmas in the UK and at Thanksgiving in the US 吐绶雞；火雞 
We raise turkeys mainly for the Christmas market. 我們飼養火雞主要是爲了供應聖誕節期間的市場。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- lean
- Christmas
- Thanksgiving
- …
- breed
- raise
- serve
- …
- gobble
- farm
- breast
- leg
- …
- [uncountable]
meat from a turkey 火雞肉 roast turkey 烤火雞肉 the traditional turkey with all the trimmings 配菜齊全的傳統火雞
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- lean
- Christmas
- Thanksgiving
- …
- breed
- raise
- serve
- …
- gobble
- farm
- breast
- leg
- …
- [countable] (North American English, informal)
a failure 失敗 - [countable] (North American English, informal)
a stupid person who is not useful to anyone 笨蛋；草包 see also cold turkey
Word Originmid 16th cent.: short for turkeycock or turkeyhen, originally applied to the guineafowl (which was imported through Turkey), and then mistakenly to the American bird.
Idioms
talk turkey
- (informal, especially North American English)
to talk about something seriously 鄭重其事地談；嚴肅認真地談