What's the difference between joker and turkey?

Joker


Definition:

  • (n.) One who makes jokes or jests.
  • (n.) See Rest bower, under 2d Bower.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) a) synovial bursa ( schleimbeutel ) b) sneeze guard ( Spukschutz ) c) snotty-nosed brat – literally snot spoon ( rotzloeffel ) d) grumpy bastard – literally lump of vomit ( kotzbrocken ) 4,000 Jet-setters complain of a) Jetleg b) Jetleck c) Jetlag d) Jetlack 8,000 Who, if a contestant on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire, would definitely not call the Joker?
  • (2) There are online databases of fake rick-roll URLs, and countless jokers have created sham web-browser plugins purporting to block rick-rolls while instead sending visitors to you-know-what.
  • (3) They say he can’t do this, he’s a joker – it’s like Ronnie Reagan.
  • (4) When I looked at the four people we had, Bruno is the joker, Craig is the Simon Cowell of the show and Len is the head judge.
  • (5) You’re probably the kind of ‘joker’ who spikes the water cooler with WKD and chews on biros before flashing a blue-toothed smile.
  • (6) Or I lost it.” Muhammad Ali: fighter, joker, magician, religious disciple, preacher Read more Another memory I have of that time is of waking up one morning in Ali’s home and hearing Lonnie cry out, “Oh my God!
  • (7) Nobody thought Jack Nicholson’s Joker could be bettered until they saw Heath Ledger’s spikier take in The Dark Knight.
  • (8) Before the internet, some joker printed up hundreds of (faked) nude pictures of Jessie Matthews and dropped them on Dresden from a bomber!
  • (9) One of these jokers just swallowed a pair of nail clippers.
  • (10) Hodgson, by contrast, has quietly decommissioned his dream of playing Doctor Who , because: “I fear I have this curse of looking a bit like David Tennant , and that may scupper things.” And yet, it was Lance Armstrong’s story – or at least, a homespun Yorkshire take on it – that bagged this gentle young joker an Edinburgh Comedy award nomination this summer.
  • (11) And so, just when it looked like events were spiralling out of his control, Farage pulled out his joker – the old “Foreigners with Aids are making British people die of cancer” line.
  • (12) We have aimed towards the low end of the range given the fall in oil over the past six months, but that component is typically the joker in the pack."
  • (13) He's unmissable because he's still the sharpest pitch-black joker in the pack.
  • (14) Griffin on the panellists Bonnie Greer, American playwright and critic: "The joker in the pack; knows how to look after herself and may be more of a handful than the others."
  • (15) At one stage he bred budgerigars, and while travelling back on the train from a fixture against Birmingham City, White and Jones, the two practical jokers in the team, stole uniforms from two waiters in the dining car and appeared in front of him with a lidded serving salver.
  • (16) Brad Dourif, not Jack Nicholson , was Tim Burton's first choice to play The Joker in 1989's Batman, according to the star of Lord of the Rings and the Child's Play movies.
  • (17) True Blood star Robert Kazinsky wrote : "OOOOOOOOOOOOH Matt Damon as the new joker?
  • (18) In my version, the man who opts for the role of joker in the male group is not looking for power but for acceptance; the other roles in the group are not accessible to him, perhaps because he is weaker or poorer or less imposing than his peers.
  • (19) Speaking at a Q&A to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the original 1988 Child's Play horror flick, Dourif revealed that studio Warner Bros scuppered his chances to play The Joker despite Burton's efforts.
  • (20) Even a faint imprint of Ali had left its mark, but I could not reconcile all the versions of the man: the fighter, the joker, the magician, the religious disciple and preacher, the amiable conman.

Turkey


Definition:

  • (n.) An empire in the southeast of Europe and southwest of Asia.
  • (n.) Any large American gallinaceous bird belonging to the genus Meleagris, especially the North American wild turkey (Meleagris gallopavo), and the domestic turkey, which was probably derived from the Mexican wild turkey, but had been domesticated by the Indians long before the discovery of America.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In April, they said the teenager boarded a flight to Turkey with his friend Hassan Munshi, also 17 at the time.
  • (2) "We examined the reachability of social networking sites from our measurement infrastructure within Turkey, and found nothing unusual.
  • (3) It is also a clear sign of our willingness and determination to step up engagement across the whole range of the EU-Turkey relationship to fully reflect the strategic importance of our relations.
  • (4) The protein quality and iron bioavailability of mechanically deboned turkey meat (MDT) and hand-deboned turkey meat (HDT) were determined in rats.
  • (5) If he is not bluffing, this may cause a total rift with the European family from which Turkey already feels excluded.
  • (6) I am rooting hard for you.” Ronald Reagan simply told his former vice-president Bush: “Don’t let the turkeys get you down.” By 10.30am Michelle Obama and Melania Trump will join the outgoing and incoming presidents in a presidential limousine to drive to the Capitol.
  • (7) Since the election on 7 March there has been a bitter contest for power in Iraq led by Iran, Saudi Arabia and Turkey.
  • (8) Cultures of these isolants were inoculated experimentally into turkeys and produced lesions of chlamydiosis that were indistinguishable from those caused by the strain originally recovered from diseases turkeys on the premises.
  • (9) Tracheal mucus transport rate (TMTR) and quantitative clearance of aerosolized Escherichia coli from the trachea, lung, and air sac were measured in healthy unanesthetized turkeys and in turkeys exposed by aerosol to a La Sota vaccine strain of Newcastle disease virus (NDV).
  • (10) The lymphoproliferative disease virus (LPDV) of turkeys is the retroviral agent of etiology of a rapidly developing, naturally occurring, lymphoproliferative process.
  • (11) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Looking on as his Bolton side take on Besiktas during their Uefa Cup group game in Istanbul, Turkey.
  • (12) Even regional allies disagree with American priorities about Isis, Biddle noted, which is why Turkey continues to bomb Kurds and Saudi Arabia and the UAE arm groups around the region , most notably in Syria but also in the ruins of Yemen .
  • (13) Reductions of similar magnitude were obtained following intracranial administration of turkey, ovine or human GH.
  • (14) A detailed comparison of the interaction of beta-adrenergic receptors with adenylate cyclase stimulation and modification of this interaction by guanine nucleotides has been made in two model systems, the frog and turkey erythrocyte.
  • (15) We should be grateful the School Food Trust has established this now, before we end up falling down a slippery slope back towards the dreaded Turkey Twizzler that Jamie Oliver campaigned to banish," he added.
  • (16) But Turkey prefers to deal with the present rather than admit to past crimes.
  • (17) Circumstantial evidence indicated that in the field; the incubation period of P multocida in a turkey flock may be between 2 to 7 weeks.
  • (18) Before the AKP came to power, nobody had heard of Turkey and our politicians.
  • (19) Facebook Twitter Pinterest 11-year-old Karim, who lives and works in a camp for displaced people close to the border with Turkey.
  • (20) After the Italian prime minister, Matteo Renzi, threatened to veto a deal with Turkey, a reference to media freedom was added to the final summit statement.