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turk | bashlyk |

As a proper noun turk

is turk (person from turkey).

As an adjective turk

is turkish.

As a noun bashlyk is

a protective cone-shaped hood with lappets for wrapping around the neck, used especially by turks and cossacks.

turk

English

Alternative forms

* (obsolete)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A member of any of the numerous ethnic groups whose majority have lived a nomadic life on the vast Eurasian steppe, speaking Turkic languages.
  • A person from Turkey.
  • (obsolete) A Muslim.
  • *, II.12:
  • Compare but our manners unto a Turke .
  • * Chillingworth
  • It is no good reason for a man's religion that he was born and brought up in it; for then a Turk would have as much reason to be a Turk as a Christian to be a Christian.
  • (archaic) A bloodthirsty and savage person; vandal; barbarian.
  • * 1579 , John Lyly, Euphues , page 42:
  • Was neuer any Impe so wicked and barbarous, any Turke so vyle and brutishe.
  • * 1760 , Tobias George Smollett (editor), The Critical Review: Or, Annals of Literature, Volume 9 , page 20:
  • A sort of primitive barbarity distinguishes the whole; no variety of character appears; and to call a man Turk is to say, that he is jealous, haughty, covetous, ignorant, and lascivious; at the same time that a certain dignity of gait, and magnificence of manners, gives him the appearance of generosity and true greatness of soul.
  • * 1987 , Anne Mozley, Essays from "Blackwood" , page 21:
  • A bad temper does seem often favourable to health. The man who has been a Turk all his life lives long to plague all about him.
  • * 1906 , (George Meredith), One of our conquerors , page 292:
  • As much as the wilfully or naturally blunted, the intelligently honest have to learn by touch: only, their understandings cannot meanwhile be so wholly obtuse as our society's matron, acting to please the tastes of the civilized man—a creature that is not clean-washed of the Turk in him—barbarously exacts.
  • * 1928 , Lu?f? Levonian, Moslem mentality: a discussion of the presentation of Christianity to Moslems , page 85:
  • They regarded the very word Turk' as synonymous with ignorance, impoliteness, and idiocy. To call a man '' Turk' was regarded as a great dishonour to him.
  • (US, slang) A homosexual, assuming the active role in anal sex.
  • * 1938 , Aaron Joshua Rosanoff, Manual of psychiatry and mental hygiene , page 159:
  • The clannishness of homosexuals has led to the development of special slang expressions among them: Temperamental or queer'', a homosexual person. ''Turk , wolf, or jocker , an active sodomist.
  • * 1993 , Jonathon Green, Slang down the ages: the historical development of slang , page 231:
  • *:turd-packer, hitchhiker on the Hershey highway (fr. the US Hershey chocolate bars), shirt-lifter (Australian), wind-jammer, fart-catcher, dirt tamper, pillow-biter and Turk (fr. the alleged national propensity for sodomy).
  • * 2006 , Deborah Cameron, On language and sexual politics , page 35:
  • One of the many underworld synonyms for an active pederast is turk .
  • A member of a Mestee group in South Carolina.
  • Derived terms

    * Turk's head

    Anagrams

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    bashlyk

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A protective cone-shaped hood with lappets for wrapping around the neck, used especially by Turks and Cossacks.
  • * 1962 , Henri Troyat, Daily Life in Russia Under the Last Tsar , page 123
  • In winter the troops wore the grey greatcoat and the bashlyk , a sort of hood protecting the neck and ears.
  • * 1968 , Jacob Neusner, A History of the Jews in Babylonia , page 102
  • The description of Jews wearing very high hats ("as tall as themselves" or "an amah'' high") calls to mind the tall pointed cap, or hood ''bashlyk''''' brought by the Iranians from the Siberian steppes. The '''''bashlyk occurs with great frequency among the Medean and Persian tribes.
  • * 1983 , E. Yarshater, The Cambridge History of Iran , volume 3(1), page 303
  • The obverse bust wears a completely new style of bashlyk , resembling the Macedonian kausia , but with a flap at the back and an eagle on top.
  • * 2007 , Ferdinand Ossendowski, Beasts, Men and Gods , page 89
  • Then one of the strangers mounted the throne, where he took off his bashlyk or cap-like head covering. All of the Lamas fell to their knees as they recognized the man who had been long ago described in the sacred bulls of Dalai Lama, Tashi Lama and Bogdo Khan.

    See also

    * (wikipedia "bashlyk") * calpack

    References