Gizzard
Gizzard , noun
[French gésier, Latin gigeria, pl., the cooked entrails of poultry. Compare Gigerium.]
1.
(Anatomy) 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.
(a) (Zoology) A thick muscular stomach found in many invertebrate animals.
(b)
(Zoology) A stomach armed with chitinous or shelly plates or teeth, as in certain insects and mollusks.
Collocations (3)
Gizzard shad (Zoology) , 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] — Hudibras
To stick in one's gizzard , to be difficult of digestion; to be offensive. [Low]