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Turkey, to say. World English Historical Dictionary

Turkey, to say. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Bibliographic Record Thornton’s An American Glossary. 1912, rev. 2022. Turkey, to say To say anything. In S.E. Missouri, to talk turkey, is to talk seriously: ‘Dialect Notes,’ ii. 333 (1903).

1 1851.  [He] won’t get a chance to say turkey to a good-lookin gall to-day!—J. J. Hooper, ‘Adventures of Captain Simon Suggs,’ &c., p. 122.

2 1909.  (Alabama.) “She never said pea-turkey to me about it.”—‘Dialect Notes,’ iii. 356. (Italics in the original.)

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