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.
verb (used with object), confused, confusing. 1. to perplex or bewilder: The flood of questions confused me. 2. to make unclear or indistinct: The rumors and angry charges tended to confuse the issue. 3. to fail to distinguish between; associate by mistake; confound: to confuse dates; He always confuses the twins.