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Definition of Talk turkey
1. Verb. Discuss frankly, often in a business context. "Sam wants to talk turkey with Sue "
Definition of Talk turkey
1. Verb. (chiefly US idiomatic) To talk or negotiate plainly, frankly, or seriously. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Talk Turkey
Literary usage of Talk turkey
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dictionary of Americanisms: A Glossary of Words and Phrases Usually Regarded by John Russell Bartlett (1877)
"To talk Turkey. To say pleasant things; to talk so as to please the hearer.
The story is an old one, —that an Indian and a white man, after a day's hunting, ..."
2. The Boy's Book about Indians: Being what I Saw and Heard for Three Years on by Edmund Bostwick Tuttle (1873)
"The Indian opened his eyes wide, and replied, " Seems to me you talk all buzzard
to me, and no talk turkey." Very little " talk turkey" has the Indian ..."
3. Annual Report by Ohio State Board of Agriculture (1906)
"The Indian said, "Why don't you talk turkey to me?" But you say, "Must the farmer's
wife have no time for social privileges?" Most assuredly she must have, ..."
4. An American Glossary by Richard Hopwood Thornton (1912)
"In SE Missouri, to talk turkey, is to talk seriously : ' Dialect Notes,' ii.
333 (1903). 1851 He won't get a chance to say turkey to a good lookin gall ..."
5. Collections by New-York Historical Society (1908)
"exclaimed the red man, "you no talk turkey to poor Indian at all." * * * The
Treaty of Ryswick, September 20, 1697, closed Frontenac's long series of ..."
6. The Life and Adventures of James P. Beckwourth, Mountaineer, Scout, Pioneer by James Pierson Beckwourth, Thomas D. Bonner, Charles Godfrey Leland (1892)
"... the natives died by thousands from plunging into cold water when attacked by
the small-pox—CG Leland. t This expression " to talk turkey," ie, ..."
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