See Also: gizzard(medicine)
gizzard(dictionary)
gizzard(dictionary)

gizzard (iou)



gizzard noun. LME.
[Old French giser, gesier, juisier (mod. gesier) from Proto-Romance alt. of Latin gigeria noun the cooked entrails of a fowl.]
The thick-walled second region of a bird's stomach, in which food is ground, often together with small stones or grit. LME.
b. The muscular grinding stomach of some fishes, insects, molluscs, etc. L18.
gen. The stomach, the entrails; the throat. Freq. joc. M17.
stick in one's gizzard be distasteful, remain as something distasteful.
K. S. Macquoid Pick a quarrel and..run him through the gizzard.
Comb.: gizzard trout = GILLAROO.