turkey buzzard
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of turkey buzzard
An Americanism dating back to 1665–75
Example Sentences
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Sign you really have bad breath: The turkey buzzard next to you edges away.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 27, 2018
He looked for all the world like a turkey buzzard, eagerly hanging over offal, and it was evident from his expression, that he had not missed a word of the reading.
From Pieces of Eight by Richard Le Gallienne
The figure is that of a turkey buzzard which the speaker shot.
From The Mide'wiwin or "Grand Medicine Society" of the Ojibwa Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1885-1886, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891, pages 143-300 by Walter James Hoffman
Saying not another word, with the rifle across his shoulder and the turkey buzzard dangling down his thigh, he takes departure from the spot, striking eastward towards the high land dimly discernible on the horizon.
From The Lone Ranche by Mayne Reid
Translation Turkey buzzard, turkey buzzard, your child is lost.
From Negro Folk Rhymes Wise and Otherwise: With a Study by Thomas Washington Talley
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