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
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
Riding the wind, blacker than the clouds, the inquisitive turkey buzzard glided over the rim of the stands with air whistling through the spatulate feathers of rigid wings.
From Thy Rocks and Rills by Robert E. Gilbert
He look lack a turkey buzzard ez had lost his wing-feathers.
From Shawn of Skarrow by James Tandy Ellis
W'ich so 'tis call 'cause she usen to roos' up dar, jes' like ole turkey buzzard.
From For Woman's Love by Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth
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