turkeydom meaning: definition, etymology and quotations

turkeydom

nounalso spelled Turkeydom

Etymology turkey + -dom

The realm or sphere of turkeys (the birds).

Then ensued a scene of horror and confusion unequalled in the annals of turkeydom. The gray hen herself, hardly escaping destruction, crept screaming from under the idiot's stomach, and fled with insensate activity, […]1889, Margaret L. Woods, Works, page 80:
Now let me ease your tender little hearts about my career being so suddenly cut short. I want to tell you that in Turkeydom it is considered a great glory to be the centre of attraction at a Christmas dinner […]1890, C. Emma Cheney, Christmas Stories and Poems for the Little Ones, page 20:

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The popular "fudge" Holly whose word is pretty nearly law in turkeydom. The bird is a broad-breasted bronze, the new strain he helped to develop.1950 November, “Let's talk turkey with the judge”, in The Rotarian, volume 77, number 5, page 23:
A Win At This Show Is The Highest Honor In Turkeydom1951, The Turkegram:

noun

Etymology Turkey + -dom

Archaic The realm or sphere of the Turks.

He wears a beard, and he likes his women to be slaves. What man doesn’t? What man would be henpecked, I say? We will cut off all the heads in Christendom or Turkeydom rather than that.1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter LIV, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850, →OCLC:
[…] those brilliant alliances which made the young ladies of Circassia the envy of Turkeydom.1856, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, volume 80, page 48: