Meanings
turkeydom1
- uncountableThe realm or sphere of turkeys (the birds).
A Win At This Show Is The Highest Honor In Turkeydom
1951, The Turkegram3 more examples
Then ensued a scene of horror and confusion unequalled in the annals of turkeydom. The gray hen herself, hardly escaping destruction, crept screaming from under the idiot's stomach, and fled with insensate activity, […]
1889, Margaret L. Woods, Works, page 80Now let me ease your tender little hearts about my career being so suddenly cut short. I want to tell you that in Turkeydom it is considered a great glory to be the centre of attraction at a Christmas dinner […]
1890, C. Emma Cheney, Christmas Stories and Poems for the Little Ones, page 20The popular "fudge" Holly whose word is pretty nearly law in turkeydom. The bird is a broad-breasted bronze, the new strain he helped to develop.
1950 November, “Let's talk turkey with the judge”, in The Rotarian, volume 77, number 5, page 23
Turkeydom2
- archaicuncountableThe realm or sphere of the Turks.
[…] those brilliant alliances which made the young ladies of Circassia the envy of Turkeydom.
1856, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, volume 80, page 481 more example
He wears a beard, and he likes his women to be slaves. What man doesn’t? What man would be henpecked, I say? We will cut off all the heads in Christendom or Turkeydom rather than that.
1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter LIV, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850, →OCLC
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