turkeyhen

turkeyhen (plural turkeyhens)

1. Alternative form of turkey-hen.
   • 1831, Alexander Wilson, Charles Lucian Bonaparte, edited by Robert Jameson, American Ornithology; or The Natural History of the Birds of the United States, volume I, Edinburgh: Constable and Co. Edinburgh; and Hurst, Chance, and Co. London, page 14:

     It would be too great an undertaking to describe all the extraordinary birds that inhabit this country; but I cannot refrain from noticing that to which they give the name of gallinazo, from the resemblance it has to the turkeyhen. This bird is of the size of a peahen, but its head and neck are something larger.

   • 1843, “William Tappan Thompson”, in Jay B Hubbell, The South in American Literature, 1607-1900, : Duke University Press, published 1954, →LCCN, page 672:

     The Madison, 1843, edition, from which the following paragraph is taken, differs slightly from the later texts: […] I told the old woman more ’n twenty times that mother’s old turkeyhen was settin on fourteen eggs.

   • 1855, Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, Brooklyn, N.Y., page 21:

     The brood of the turkeyhen, and she with her halfspread wings, I see in them and myself the same old law.

   • 1917 November 29, Ralph Jones, “Old-Time Turkeys Bemoan Expensive Fashions of Today: Materialistic Tendencies of Young Gobblers Bring Regret for More Idealistic Days of Yore”, in The Atlanta Constitution, volume L, number 167, Atlanta, Ga., page nine, column 4:

     Here and there among the great gathering could be seen odd couples of brave-appearing young gobblers and neat little turkeyhens who talked in quieter tones and spoke of the end which faced them on the morrow.

   • 1931 December 19, R. W. R., “Produce Market Review”, in Pennsylvania Farmer, volume 105, number 25, Pittsburgh, Pa.: Capper-Hapman-Slocum, Inc., page 18 (436), columns 3–4:

     Turkeys moved fairly well with turkeyhens bringing 25@28c per pound, and toms 20@22c.

   • 1990, Manuel Lucena Salmoral, America 1492: Portrait of a Continent 500 Years Ago, New York, N.Y., Oxford, Oxon: Facts On File, →ISBN, page 153:

     In the center is tribute, consisting of two blankets, perfumes, a copper axe, a basket of tamales, a stewed turkeyhen and a cup of chocolate.