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Word: Gizzard
Speech Type: Noun
Etymology:
late Middle English giser: from Old French, based on Latin gigeria ‘cooked entrails of fowl’. The final -d was added in the 16th century
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Phonetic Spelling:
ˈɡɪzəd
Dialects: British English
Definition:
a muscular, thick-walled part of a bird's stomach for grinding food, typically with grit.
Short Definition:muscular, thick-walled part of bird's stomach for grinding food
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