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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

GIZ'ZARD, n. The strong musculus stomach of a fowl.
To fret the gizzard, to harass; to vex one's self, or to be vexed.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: thick-walled muscular pouch below the crop in many birds and reptiles for grinding food [syn: gizzard, ventriculus, gastric mill]

Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: alteration of Middle English giser gizzard, liver, from Anglo-French gesir, giser, from Latin gigeria (plural) giblets Date: 1565 1. a. the muscular enlargement of the alimentary canal of birds that has usually thick muscular walls and a tough horny lining for grinding the food and when the crop is present follows it and the proventriculus b. a thickened part of the alimentary canal in some animals (as an insect or an earthworm) that is similar in function to the crop of a bird 2. innards

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. 1 the second part of a bird's stomach, for grinding food usu. with grit. 2 a muscular stomach of some fish, insects, molluscs, and other invertebrates. Phrases and idioms: stick in one's gizzard colloq. be distasteful. Etymology: ME giser f. OF giser, gesier etc., ult. f. L gigeria cooked entrails of fowl

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Gizzard Giz"zard, n. [F. g['e]sier, L. gigeria, pl., the cooked entrails of poultry. Cf. Gigerium.] 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. (Zo["o]l.) (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 (Zo["o]l.), 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]

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. Third stomach (in birds).

1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue

To grumble in the gizzard; to be secretly displeased.

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