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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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... letters were useful as far as I employed them; and I like both the place and people, though I don't trouble the latter more than I can help She manages very well—but if I come away with a stiletto in my gizzard some fine afternoon, I shall not be astonished. I can't make him out at all—he visits me frequently, and takes me out (like Whittington, the Lord Mayor) in a coach and six horses. The fact appears to be, that he is completely governed by her—for that matter, so am I.[38] The ...

— Life of Lord Byron, Vol. IV - With His Letters and Journals • Thomas Moore

... distress, and advised him to take out the troublesome hook. Cato, however, shook his black head and said, "Guess naughty Pickaninny did de queue of Massa's wig. Neber mind, Cato no make trouble; queue no feelins; I smood him up. Dem chestnuts in his gizzard, spoze." ...

— The Talkative Wig • Eliza Lee Follen

... some relation to a camp-chest, blew a cloud of smoke through his sensitive nostrils and laughed. "Why, stuff, boys!" he exclaimed somewhat impatiently, "you can't scare Little Compton. He's got grit, and it's the right kind of grit. Why, I'll tell you what's a fact—the sand in that man's gizzard would make enough mortar to build ...

— Free Joe and Other Georgian Sketches • Joel Chandler Harris

... in it knowed I wasn't ringing in any bluff." He looked at Dunlavey with a level, steady gaze, his eyes gleaming coldly. "If you think I'm bluffing now, chirp for some one of your pluguglies to bust into this game. I'd sort of like to let off my campaign guns into your dirty gizzard!" ...

— The Coming of the Law • Charles Alden Seltzer

... her curls and skirts. I affected not to see the pantomime, which I chose to assume was enacted for my further exasperation. I was apparently as indifferent to Uncle Ike's shameless partiality in loading my plate with choice tidbits, such as a gizzard, a merry-thought, or a cheese-cake, while Mary 'Liza had to ask twice for what she wanted. What was not tasteless was bitter to my palate. I wondered, dully, why the sight of the doll-baby and the fuss her owner made over her, turned me sick. As soon as I could get away, ...

— When Grandmamma Was New - The Story of a Virginia Childhood • Marion Harland

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