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/

• Audio (Southern England):

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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, and 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.

2. (slang) The (human) stomach.
   • 1918, Norman Lindsay, The Magic Pudding, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 51:

     "Pushing a man's face into his own breakfast is beyond rules or reason, and deserves a punch in the gizzard."

Derived terms

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

 

Translations

portion of the esophagus with ingested grit

• Arabic: قَانِصَة f (qāniṣa)
• Armenian: մկանային ստամոքս (mkanayin stamokʻs), քարաճիկ (hy) (kʻaračik), քարճիկ (hy) (kʻarčik)
• Basque: arandoi
• Bulgarian: воденичка f (vodenička)
• Burmese: please add this translation if you can
• Catalan: pedrer (ca)
• Cherokee: ᎤᏳᏘ (uyuti)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 腎／肾 (san⁵, san^5-2)

  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
• Haitian Creole: zizye
• Hebrew: קורקבן (he) m (kurkevan)
• Hungarian: zúzógyomor (hu) (the organ), zúza (hu) (the food)
• Icelandic: fóarn n
• Ido: gizardo (io)
• Ilocano: batikuleng
• Indonesian: ampela (id)
• Ingrian: kivimylly
• Irish: eagaois f
• Italian: ventriglio (it)
• Japanese: 砂嚢 (ja) (さのう, sanō, すなぶくろ, sunabukuro)
• Javanese: rempela (jv)
• 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 2^nd 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
• Persian: سنگدان (fa)
• Polish: mielec m, żołądek mięśniowy m
• Portuguese: moela (pt)
• Rapa Nui: hatatú
• Romanian: pipotă (ro) f
• Russian: второ́й желу́док m (vtorój želúdok), мускульный желудок (ru) m (muskulʹnyj želudok)
• 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)
• Ukrainian: мускульний шлунок m (muskulʹnyj šlunok)
• Vietnamese: mề (vi)
• Welsh: glasog f, crombil m or f
• Zazaki: sorsinek, siyanık

See also

• crop