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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A male turkey.
- noun A strutting, conceited person.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The bird now called
turkey (including the female); properly, the male of the turkey, called the gobbler; hence, a person of great personal vanity and foolish pride: so called in allusion to the strutting of the bird.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun male turkey
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