The noun TURKEY has 5 senses: 1. large gallinaceous bird with fan-shaped tail; widely domesticated for food. 2. a Eurasian republic in Asia Minor and the Balkans; achieved independence from the Ottoman Empire in 1923. 3. a person who does something thoughtless or annoying.
adjective bewildering, complicated, puzzling, misleading, unclear, baffling, muddling, contradictory, ambiguous, inconsistent, perplexing, clear as mud (informal) The statement they issued was highly confusing.
Confusing Words. Some words in which you wouldnât expect a hyphen to persist remain to avoid confusion with a similar word with a different meaning (âre-cover,â as opposed to ârecoverâ; âre-creationâ instead of ârecreationâ).