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solely

On-Yomi: ユイ、イ — Kun-Yomi: ただ

Elements:

solely, mouth, turkey

Primitive:

turkey(indyk) This primitive is best remembered as an old turkey, complete with pipe and monocle. Its writing is somewhat peculiar, so take note of the order of the strokes. Let the first four strokes stand for the turkey’s head, neck, and drooping chin. The remainder can then be pictographic of the plumage. [8]

Heisig story:

Mouth . . . turkey.

Koohii stories:

1) [smithsonian] 4-12-2006(270): The mouth of a turkey is used solely for saying, "Gobble." Likewise, your mouth, full of turkey, is solely used to gobble it up.

2) [Howdoken] 7-1-2008(113): Sadly my mouth gets to taste turkey solely on Christmas Day.

3) [zazen666] 13-2-2008(64): "We can't prosecutre the murderer based solely on what comes from the mouth of this turkey!" Imagine a turkey who witnessed a murder of his fellow kind (to be eaten) and trying to report it to the cops.

4) [diracbracket] 9-1-2011(50): To be remembered in conjunction with its virtual synonym "only". All we need to remember is this: "only" gets the turkey's legs, and solely gets the rest of the turkey.

5) [Green_Airplane] 25-6-2008(31): Remember the episode of Friends, when no one except Joey wanted turkey for thanksgiving? Joey insisted, "what kind of thanksgiving would it be without a turkey?" so Monica agreed to make one, if he could eat it all by himself. A whole turkey solely for the mouth of Joey Tribbiani! Just picture him sitting there, with a huge turkey on the table in front of him, stuffing it in his mouth. If I recall correctly, he still had some space left for the desert!

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