Definitions for gizzard

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gizzard giz·zard

Spelling: [giz-erd]

IPA: /ˈgɪz ərd/

Gizzard is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 27 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 28 points.

You can make 84 anagrams from letters in gizzard (adgirzz).

Definitions for gizzard

noun

1. Also called ventriculus. a thick-walled, muscular pouch in the lower stomach of many birds and reptiles that grinds food, often with the aid of ingested stones or grit.
2. Also called gastric mill. a similar structure in the foregut of arthropods and several other invertebrates, often lined with chitin and small teeth.
3. the innards or viscera collectively, especially the intestine and stomach.

Origin of gizzard

1325-75; Middle English giser Old French giser, gezier (French gésier) Vulgar Latin *gigerium; compare Latin gigeria, gizeria giblets, perhaps ultimately Iranian; compare Persian jigar liver

Examples for gizzard

He gets his knife back in the gizzard, and that wipes out one score.

Friend or foe, he who touches me shall have a bullet in his gizzard.

The stomach should not be required to perform the function of the gizzard of a fowl.

"Yer blowin' the gizzard out o' us" Duke: Hi, there, for'ard!

Carefully separate the heart, liver and gizzard from the other organs.

When she came back the gizzard was gone, but she was so tickled that she didn't notice it.

Cut up the gizzard and liver with a lump of butter and a spoonful of cream.

What for should he put up his fins now the hook's in his gizzard?

Stand aside, Arnaud, lest you find a bolt through your gizzard.

And if that is true of the "gizzard" it is likewise true of the brain.