What does it mean when you call someone a jive turkey?
A jive turkey is someone who is unreliable, makes exaggerations or empty promises, or who is otherwise dishonest. The phrase is so associated with 1970s culture.
Where is jive turkey from?
Origin of jive-turkey
Coined in the 1970s, African-American.
Is Jive an insult?
When used in the phrase “jive turkey,” jive is an intensifier/modifier that increases the generally insulting cast of the word “turkey”—a dud, loser, or inept person—to “a lying dud, loser, or inept person.” When jive is otherwise used to modify, however, as in “jive language,” it refers to the inventive, highly …