gizzard

gizzard

English

Etymology

From Middle English gyser, geser, from Old French gesier, giser et al. (French gésier), from Latin gigēria.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɡɪzəd/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɡɪzɚd/
• Rhymes: -ɪzə(ɹ)d

Noun

gizzard (plural gizzards)

1. A specialized organ constructed of thick muscular walls found in the digestive tract of some animals, including archosaurs (including crocodilians and birds), earthworms, some gastropods, some fish, and some crustaceans used for grinding up food, often aided by particles of stone or grit.
   • 2016, Justin O. Schmidt, The Sting of the Wild, Johns Hopkins University Press,, →ISBN, page 29:

     As fortune has it, kingbirds, like owls, lack a grinding gizzard and regurgitate hard fragments from their meals.

Derived terms

• gizzard shad
• fret the gizzard
• stick in one's gizzard

Translations

portion of the esophagus with ingested grit

Arabic: قانِصَة‎ f (qāniṣa) Armenian: մկանային ստամոքս (mkanayin stamokʿs), քարաճիկ (hy) (kʿaračik), քարճիկ (hy) (kʿarčik) Basque: arandoi Bulgarian: воденичка f (vodenička) Burmese: please add this translation if you can Catalan: pedrer Cherokee: ᎤᏳᏘ (uyuti) Chinese: Cantonese: 腎, 肾 (san5, san5-2) Mandarin: 肫 (zh) (zhūn) Czech: svalnatý žaludek m Danish: kråse Dutch: spiermaag Esperanto: maĉstomako, kropo Finnish: kivipiira (fi), lihasmaha (fi); purumaha (in crustaceans) French: gésier (fr) m Galician: moella (gl) f, moega (gl) f German: Kaumagen m Hebrew: קורקבן‎ (he) m (kurkevan) Hungarian: zúzógyomor (the organ), zúza (hu) (the food) Icelandic: fóarn n Ido: gizardo (io) Ilocano: batikuleng Indonesian: ampela (id) Irish: eagaois f Italian: ventriglio (it) Japanese: 砂嚢 (さのう, sanō, すなぶくろ, sunabukuro) Kannada: please add this translation if you can Khmer: កោះ (km) (kɑh) Korean: 모래주머니 (moraejumeoni) Kurdish: Central Kurdish: سیکەتۆرە‎ (sîketore) Lao: please add this translation if you can Latin: ingluviēs f (the same word also for the craw or crop), gigēria n pl [from 2nd century AD] Latvian: guza (lv) f Lithuanian: skilvys m, skilvis m Maori: please add this translation if you can Maranao: tikolen Mongolian: хоолой (mn) (xooloj), багалзуур (mn) (bagalzuur) Norwegian: krås m Polish: mielec m, żołądek mięśniowy m Portuguese: moela (pt) Rapa Nui: hatatú Romanian: pipotă (ro) f Russian: второ́й желу́док m (vtorój želúdok) Scottish Gaelic: sgròban m Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: жѐлудац m Latin: žèludac (sh) m Spanish: molleja (es) f Swahili: firigisi Swedish: muskelmage (sv) Tagalog: balun-balunan Thai: กึ๋น (th) (gʉ̌n) Turkish: katı (tr), taşlık (tr) Vietnamese: mề (vi) Welsh: glasog f, crombil m or f Zazaki: sorsinek, siyanık

See also

• crop