To say anything. In S.E. Missouri, to talk turkey, is to talk seriously: ‘Dialect Notes,’ ii. 333 (1903).
1851. [He] won’t get a chance to say turkey to a good-lookin gall to-day!—J. J. Hooper, ‘Adventures of Captain Simon Suggs,’ &c., p. 122.
1909. (Alabama.) “She never said pea-turkey to me about it.”—‘Dialect Notes,’ iii. 356. (Italics in the original.)
