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noun

Gizzard n.

(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.

(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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Etymology of 'Gizzard'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Gizzard" Quotes from Famous Books

... going, we want all the information we can get," declared the odd man. "Bless my gizzard, Tom, but this may ...

— Tom Swift in the City of Gold, or, Marvelous Adventures Underground • Victor Appleton

... of some wild fruit, such as the climbing bitter-sweet, are so soft that it seems impossible they should pass through the gizzard of a bird and not ...

— Ways of Nature • John Burroughs

... "you'd find it a pretty tough and matter-of-fact idea, if you had it stuck through your gizzard, ...

— The Coral Island - A Tale Of The Pacific Ocean • R. M. Ballantyne

... in the eyes Will quickly fall upon the tongue, And thence, as famed John Bunyan sung, From out the pen will presently On paper dribble daintily. Suppose I call'd you goose, it is hard One word should stick thus in your gizzard. You're my goose, and no other man's; And you know, all my geese are swans: Only one scurvy thing I find, Swans sing when dying, geese when blind. But now I smoke where lies the slander,— I call'd you goose instead of gander; For that, dear Tom, ne'er fret and vex, I'm sure you cackle like ...

— Poems (Volume II.) • Jonathan Swift

... the Italian's sober dress; in his long hair, and the chapeau bras, over which he bowed so gracefully, and then pressed it, as if to his heart, before tucking it under his arm, after the fashion in which the gizzard reposes under the wing of a roasted pullet,—yet it was impossible that even Frank could deny to Riccabocca that praise which is due to the air and manner of an unmistakable gentleman. And certainly as, after dinner, ...

— My Novel, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton

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