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turk | german |

As proper nouns the difference between turk and german

is that turk is turk (person from turkey) while german is a german, teuton.

As an adjective turk

is turkish.

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

    *

    References

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    german

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (abbreviation):

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A native or inhabitant of Germany; a person of German citizenship or nationality.
  • A member of the Germanic ethnic group which is the most populous ethnic group in Germany; a person of German descent.
  • A member of a Germanic tribe.
    • Rome was sacked by Germans and the Western Roman Empire collapsed.

    Synonyms

    * (member of the German ethnic group) Teuton * (member of the German ethnic group) Boche, Fritz, Hun, Jerry, Kraut (qualifier)

    Hypernyms

    * European

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • An Indo-European (Indo-Germanic) language, primarily spoken in Germany, Austria, Liechtenstein, South Tyrol, Switzerland, Luxembourg and a small part of Belgium.
    • German has three genders: masculine, feminine and neuter.

    Synonyms

    * (language) High German

    See also

    * (de) * Language list *

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Of or relating to the nation of Germany.
  • * 2001 , Donald L. Niewyk, The Jews in Weimar Germany (ISBN 0765806924), page 31:
    • In Prussia, always the most progressive of the German states during the Weimar years and a stronghold of the two parties, Jews could be found in virtually all administrative departments .
  • Of or relating to the natives or inhabitants of Germany; to people of German descent.
    • Her German husband has blond hair.
  • Of, in or relating to the German language.
    • We take German classes twice a week.
    Because the instructions were German , Yves couldn't read them.

    Synonyms

    * Teutonic

    Statistics

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    External links

    * Leo's German - English Dictionary]: from [http://www.informatik.tu-muenchen.de/home_e.html Department of Informatics of Technische Universität München *

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