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turducken

turducken

4 8.4
A dish made by putting a boneless chicken inside a boneless duck, then inside a boneless turkey
  • noun
  • /tərˈdʌkən/
  • US
translation icon : turduken
  • I know people still get excited about deep-fried turkey and turducken, but I have returned to the simpler ways of Thanksgiving, relying on simple ingredients and a genuine love of cooking healthy, delicious food.

Examples

  • The turducken?

  • Have you heard about the turducken?!

  • It's a turducken, Dad.

  • When it's time to turn on professional football, I wait for the annual appearance of that ever-elusive John Madden turducken.

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  • Due to a snafu in my plans of ordering my entire meal online and happily spending my day visiting with family instead of being in the kitchen all day, we ended up with nothing but one Turducken and two pies.

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  • They've got a Turducken Junior, as well as a Grand Turducken, which involves 20 pounds of "pure poultry pleasure" and a bunch of accoutrements like root vegetables, herbs, gravy, an oven thermometer, and much more.

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  • For Thanksgiving this year, we decided to make a turducken, which combines chicken, duck, and turkey in one dish.

  • Many chefs recommend trying a turducken as a festive centerpiece for holiday dinners.

  • The famous dish known as turducken consists of a chicken stuffed inside a duck, which is then stuffed inside a turkey.

How Layered

turducken
  • US
4 8.4
stuffing
1 1.4

Surface Forms

turducken singular
turduckens plural

Morphology

turducken = turkey (transparent) = tur + duck + en

The word is a coined blend that directly references the three birds arranged one inside another, so learners who know the component birds can infer the dish.

Etymology

Turducken is a playful blend of the bird names turkey, duck, and chicken. It is named that way because the dish is made by putting a chicken 'inside' a duck, and that duck 'inside' a turkey.