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
Talk fast, you eagle-beaked turkey buzzard, or I salivates you rapid!”
From 'Firebrand' Trevison by Ivory, P. V. E. (Percy Van Eman)
Chíchepa, spotted chicken-hawk; Chikpina, weasel; Hapawila, water snake; Jewinna, chicken-hawk; Jewinpa, young chicken-hawk; Kedila, soaproot plant; Matsklila, turkey buzzard; Pakálai Jáwichi, water lizard; Tirúkala, lamprey eel; Wirula, red fox.
From Creation Myths of Primitive America In relation to the Religious History and Mental Development of Mankind by Curtin, Jeremiah
But the following day the sky was thick with a kind of turkey buzzard, which had evidently smelt the dog’s corpse from some distance, and they were soon quarrelling over the remains.
From Wanderings among South Sea Savages and in Borneo and the Philippines by Walker, H. Wilfrid
Of course, I never heard a turkey buzzard sing.
From Laddie; a true blue story by Stratton-Porter, Gene
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