Definition of "turkey-cock" [turkey-cock]

• A male turkey. (noun)

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• "Con O'Neill plays Herod with a turkey-cock swagger."
• "This error then was compounded by confusion of the African bird known variously, depending on sex, as the turkey-cock or turkey-hen with the New World turkey, which was domesticated in Mexico prior to the Spanish invasion in 1518, and which is ancestral to the one we eat."
• "So in they came, the Doctor smirking, gallanting, and performing all the bustling parade of settled and arranged courtship, with much of that grace wherewith a turkey-cock goes through the same ceremony."