gizzard
noun /ˈɡɪzəd/
/ˈɡɪzərd/
- the part of a bird’s stomach in which food is broken up into smaller pieces before being digestedTopics Birdsc2Word Originlate Middle English giser: from Old French, based on Latin gigeria ‘cooked entrails of fowl’. The final -d was added in the 16th cent.