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.
53 Synonyms found for confuse. confuse c.1550, in literal sense mix or mingle things so as to render the elements indistinguishable; attested from mid-18c. in active, figurative sense of discomfit in mind or feeling; not in general use until 19c., taking over senses formerly belonging to confound, dumbfound, flabbergast etc.