Sentence examples for turkey cock from inspiring English sources

William Home Lizars began etching the first copper plate (the wild turkey cock) in November.

When angry, "he began to swell up slowly and go red in the face like a turkey cock..

A turkey cock painted about 1612 (Victoria and Albert Museum, London) is attributed to Manṣūr and marks that bird's first appearance in India.

As Turner, Timothy Spall is magnificent: it's a huge, energetically physical performance, whether he's holding forth grandiloquently or issuing a strange guttural hoot that is the character's taciturn trademark, something between Chewbacca and a rutting turkey cock.

He said the language in official Washington sounded to him like the gobbling of a strutting turkey cock, "and at the end of the gobble there was a sort of gook".

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

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

"Here he comes, swelling like a turkey-cock," mocks a character in "Henry V", referring to the bird's embarrassing wattles and puffed-out tail feathers.

Of her husband, Mrs. Holroyd says he "toffed himself up to the nines, and skedaddled off as brisk as a turkey-cock".

On stage he maintains an ironic distance from the turkey-cock machismo of old-school dancers, yet the intensity of his performance is fired by pure duende.

(Pavo, Spanish for turkey, meant "peacock," and throughout the sixteenth century, in England, a turkey-cock and a guinea-cock clearly refer to the same thing, whatever it was).