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.
If only heâd looked up words he used! The misunderstanding of words by famous people brings public awareness to the need for lexical education. Check out this list of most looked-up words for an idea of what vocabulary words werenât covered in English class. 1. anomaly â an irregularity; an abnormality.