turkey cock

How to use turkey cock in a sentence

• There were Sarah Anne, his wife, as red as a turkey-cock, and swollen fit to brussen wi' he getting home so late.

  Yorkshire Oddities, Incidents and Strange Events | S. Baring-Gould

• They did this until the man was so angry that his face was as red as a turkey cock's, while his breath came in gasps.

  Billy Whiskers' Adventures | Frances Trego Montgomery

• The old turkey-cock, stretching his lean neck, glared down upon him with a terse qwit!

  The Backwoodsmen | Charles G. D. Roberts

• The former I left undisturbed, but I shot one old fat turkey-cock, and hung it on the saddle behind me.

  The Backwoodsman | Various

• The adult male is called a turkey cock, also a tom-turkey (sometimes simply tom) and a gobbler.

  Our Domestic Birds | John H. Robinson