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giz·zard (giz′ərd)

noun

  1. the second stomach of a bird: it has thick muscular walls and a tough lining for grinding food that has been partially digested in the first stomach
  2. Informal the stomach: a humorous usage

Etymology: ME giser (+ unhistoric -d) < OFr gisier < L gigeria, pl., cooked entrails of poultry < ? an Iran base > Pers džigar, liver

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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