Turkeyling

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A young or little turkey; a poult.

    "As he spoke, another cruel rap, a faint peep, and a third turkeyling lay stretched upon the green. The hen-mother by this time had taken the alarm, and hastily called off the remainder of her family."

Example

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"As he spoke, another cruel rap, a faint peep, and a third turkeyling lay stretched upon the green. The hen-mother by this time had taken the alarm, and hastily called off the remainder of her family."

Etymology

From turkey + -ling.

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