Jordan vs Turkey - What's the difference?
jordan | turkey |
A country in the Middle East. Official name: Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan.
A river of the Middle East, mentioned in the Bible, that empties into the Dead Sea, and after which the country is named.
; in the Middle Ages given to children baptized with Jordan water brought by Crusaders.
* 1989 (Jeanette Winterson), Sexing the Cherry , Grove Press 1998, ISBN 0802135781, pages 3-4:
derived from the male given name.
used since mid-20th century.
Either of two species of bird in the genus Meleagris with fan-shaped tails and wattled necks.
(UK) The guinea fowl (Numida meleagris ).
(colloquial) A failure.
(slang, usually, mildly, derogatory) A foolish or inept person.
(bowling) An act of throwing three strikes in a row.
As a noun jordan
is (obsolete) a pot or vessel with a large neck, formerly used by physicians and alchemists.As a proper noun turkey is
country at the intersection of europe and asia on the mediterranean official name: republic of turkey.jordan
English
(wikipedia Jordan)Proper noun
(s)- I call him Jordan and it will do. He has no other name before or after. What was there to call him, fished as he was from the stinking Thames? A child can't be called Thames, no and not Nile either, for all his likeness to Moses. But I wanted to given him a river name, a name not bound to anything, just as the waters aren't bound to anything.
Derived terms
* Jordanian * Jordanesque *Jordanianism *JordaniannessSee also
* English unisex given names ----turkey
English
Noun
(en noun)- That film was a turkey .
- The turkey cut in front of me and then berated me for running into him.
