turkey cock
gobbler AmE informal

The other was Turkey cock, for reasons that are today mysterious.

George was very upset, got as red as a turkey cock.

The puke didn't have the brains of a turkey cock, but he was useful.

He was proud as a turkey cock around other men, irritable and quick to pass an insult.

What's come over our old sparrow, damned if all of a sudden he isn't acting like a turkey cock!

He looked like an old turkey cock, with fierce eyes, a hooked nose and a long, wrinkled neck.

He stood alert, like a wild turkey cock at the cluck of a hen.

Shaking its wattles like an angry turkey cock, the big bird glared at the man.

It is not usual," gobbled Joshua, swelling himself out like a great turkey cock. "

Far away, at the other end of the island, she was pleading his case to her vengeful turkey cock of a father.

It is well watered, being crossed by Turkey Cock Run.

They are spring-fed, and their runoff drains into Turkey Cock Run.

He couldn't remember when he'd been so puffed up with good old-fashioned billy goat, turkey cock, tomcat feelings sitting next to a lady.

Childs nodded so vehemently thathis jowls wobbled like a turkey cock.

She grew beetroot red and bridled like a turkey cock," Mrs. Sharpe said. "

Hence the fowl, which had come from Mexico, was called Turkey bird, or Turkey cock.

Colonel Devereaux had gone as red as a turkey cock-- his eyebrows seemed to bristle with frustration.

In 1612, Jehangir received a turkey cock from Goa and this was illustrated by Mansur.

At this polite mockery Joshua turned perfectly pale with rage, like the turkey cock when his wattles fade from scarlet into white.

He was a perfect picture of pride as he strutted very much like Tom Gobbler the big Turkey cock.

Johnson was as red as a turkey cock and ranted and raved and sent her home to put on something more suitable.

Another nickname of the regiment was the "Bubbly Jocks", a Scots term meaning "turkey cock".

His family coat of arms - showing a turkey cock as the family crest - is among the earliest known European depictions of a turkey.

The town is swept by fire; the ghost appears in Turkey Cock Lane; the bells ring out as the church is gloriously floodlit.

Guinea fowl had been brought to England by Turkish traders, and the English called them turkey hens and turkey cocks.

We had you down as being took by the Gobblers.

We caught one of the Gobblers, and made him talk.

To the gobblers, of course, it would make no difference.

No one was allowed to work with gobblers: they had killed people.

Many times, the gobbler will stop about 50 yards away and look around.

We did not have long to see how the gobblers were going to react.

There is a place in my heart even for that turkey gobbler.

As part of this strategy, the two men named their product the Gobbler.

One of the staff people can destroy the gobblers tomorrow, she told herself.

At last, however, he managed to get close enough to knock over a gobbler.

And the name that seemed to settle on them, without anyone's knowing why, was the Gobblers.

Them two last night weren't Gobblers; they were too clumsy.

Because there's a big gobbler hangs out on the other side of this rise.

So those are the 10 tech gobblers we came up with this Thanksgiving.

What had that professor been saying about the Gobblers?

One of them, a gobbler, landed in a tree within shotgun range.

The bag limit is two male birds, or gobblers, and only one may be shot on a given day.

The big turkey gobbler would gobble and walk quickly away.

We was looking for him all afternoon and the other kids said the Gobblers got him.

To increase sales, it must win the nibblers and keep the gobblers.

The birds were still there, several strutting gobblers among them.

Again, the gobbler would not quite leave the hay field where he could watch for danger in all directions.

In about 20 minutes, Steinke called again, and the gobbler's response was closer.

Only gobblers, or males, all of which are bearded, may be shot in spring.

The fifty cables were now being eaten away by the gobblers.