Definitions for gizzards

gizzards giz·zard

Spelling: [giz-erd]
IPA: /ˈgɪz ərd/

Gizzards is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 28 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 29 points.

You can make 163 anagrams from letters in gizzards (adgirszz).

Definitions for gizzards

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 gizzards

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 gizzards

It would wring our gizzards intolerably to see so much good stuff going to waste.

But it's the principle of it what's a-sticking in their gizzards.

After very nicely cleaning goose or duck giblets, and removing the thick membrane from the gizzards, stew them, in a little water.

We have no gizzards, and so we must grind our food with our teeth.

It was very much as though he had twisted it in somebody's gizzards.

Reserve the livers, gizzards, and hearts to put in the gravy.

Skewer the livers and gizzards to the sides, under the wings.

Cut off the bills and split the heads; and cut the necks and gizzards into mouthfuls.

Why are small particles of sand, stone, &c., found in the gizzards of birds?

These gizzards are nature's gristmills, and they grind exceedingly fine.

Word Value for gizzards
Scrable

28

Words with friends

29

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