Turkey-cock

And the Turkey-cock, who had come into the world with spurs on, and therefore fancied he was an emperor, puffed himself up like a ship in full sail, and marched up to the

Favorite Fairy Tales Logan Marshall

'Cousin Turkey-cock, well may you be in a passion,' muttered Claude, as if in soliloquy.

Scenes and Characters Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862

Captain rising and approaching Madame Duval, with a voice of authority, said, "Why, how now, Mrs. Turkey-cock, what's put you into this here fluster?"

Evelina: or, The History of a Young Lady's Entrance Into the World 1778

B---- go out armed for fear of the Turkey-cock, which is her daily practice here, and leaves room for numberless reflections: she cannot eat Turkeys when roasted or boiled; and she dreads them when alive so much, that she displays every forenoon a cudgel to them, fitted by its size to strike terror into a bull, or a butting cow.

Boswell's Correspondence with the Honourable Andrew Erskine, and His Journal of a Tour to Corsica James Boswell 1767