turkey wing
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- noun
- /ˈtɜrki wɪŋ/
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ala de pavo
- The night before the bear comes back, she fixed an elaborate brodo, an authentic Northern Italian broth, rich with beef and turkey wings, and simmered it on the stove all night.
- Add turkey wings
Examples
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Aramis smiles as d'Artagnan attacks a turkey wing.
Fiction book (1993) -
She cooked the turkey wings slowly in a broth, allowing the meat to become tender and infused with spices.
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She still got them turkey wings?
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I just smothered a shitload of turkey wings.
Blog text (17) -
Joe's secret is that he uses smoked turkey wings (or drumsticks) instead of ham.
Blog text (30) -
The Reb never fathomed that the extra turkey wing on his plate was bought with profits from his brother-in-law's seamstresses' labors.
Fiction book (1990) -
To prepare the soup, I added two smoked turkey wings and let them simmer with the vegetables.
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For the barbecue, we seasoned and grilled some marinated turkey wings until they were juicy and flavorful.
Synonyms
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A body part on birds, bats, and insects used for flying or served as food
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'the wing of a turkey' is directly and compositionally derived from combining 'turkey' and 'wing'—a literal noun+noun compound referring to a part of the bird and commonly used as food. This transparent, cross-linguistically common construction follows normal English compounding patterns and would be immediately comprehensible to a B1 learner who knows both constituents.
Etymology
Turkey wing is the bird's wing, the turkey's piece of meat that people roast or add to soup for extra taste. So it simply means 'the wing of a turkey' and is used as 'food'.