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Gizzard   /gˈɪzərd/   Listen
noun
Gizzard  n.  
1.
(Anat.) The second, or true, muscular stomach of birds, in which the food is crushed and ground, after being softened in the glandular stomach (crop), or lower part of the esophagus; the gigerium.
2.
(Zool.)
(a)
A thick muscular stomach found in many invertebrate animals.
(b)
A stomach armed with chitinous or shelly plates or teeth, as in certain insects and mollusks.
Gizzard shad (Zool.), an American herring (Dorosoma cepedianum) resembling the shad, but of little value.
To fret the gizzard, to harass; to vex one's self; to worry. (Low)
To stick in one's gizzard, to be difficult of digestion; to be offensive. (Low)






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"Gizzard" Quotes from Famous Books



... interfering. This is one of the times when the law don't see anything—and don't want to see anything. I won't touch Nyland for killing Maison, and I won't lay a finger on Sanderson if he shoots the gizzard out of you. There's a train out of here in fifteen minutes. I give you your chance—take the train or take your chance ...
— Square Deal Sanderson • Charles Alden Seltzer

... certain tenderness they all showed toward us, after the first excitement of the news was over. It came out in trivial matters,—but each one, in his or her way, manifested kindness. Our landlady, for instance, when we had chickens, sent the LIVER instead of the GIZZARD, with the wing, for the schoolmistress. This was not an accident; the two are never mistaken, though some landladies APPEAR as if they did not know the difference. The whole of the company were even more respectfully attentive to my remarks than usual. There was no idle punning, ...
— The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (The Physician and Poet not the Jurist)

... Birds," which some have identified with the classical Island of Isis,[EN139] shows a triune profile, what the Brazilians call a Moela or "gizzard." Of its three peaks the lowest is the eastern; and the central is the highest, reaching seven hundred, not a thousand, feet. Viewed from within the Gulf, it is a slope of sand which has been blown ...
— The Land of Midian, Vol. 1 • Richard Burton

... me!" Cedric stormed out in spluttering fury, gripping his sword with one hand while he dragged at his coat with the other. "I'll cut—cut his bl-black gizzard, blast him. I'm a c-c-coward, eh! Right in my t-teeth! Well, wait till th'-th' ...
— Golden Stories - A Selection of the Best Fiction by the Foremost Writers • Various

... vindictiveness of any kind disturbs their equanimity, puts them out of their way, and levels them with the people who may have injured or annoyed them; they cannot endure jaundice of body or mind, and equally abhor any thing that sticks either in the gall, bladder, or "gizzard." Their defensive armour, than which none can be less penetrable, is equanimity; their weapons, ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. 327 - Vol. 53, January, 1843 • Various


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