gizzard: [14] Latin gigeria denoted the ‘cooked entrails of poultry’, something of a delicacy in ancient Rome (the word may have been borrowed from Persian jigar). This produced a Vulgar Latin *gicerium, which passed into Old French as giser. English acquired it, but did not change it from giser to gizzard until the 16th century (the addition of a so-called ‘parasitic’ d or t to the end of a word also accounts for pilchard, varmint, and the now obsolete scholard for scholar, among others).
gizzard (n.)
"stomach of a bird," late 14c., from Old French gisier "entrails, giblets (of a bird)" (13c., Modern French gésier), probably from Vulgar Latin *gicerium, dissimilated from Latin gigeria (neuter plural) "cooked entrails of a fowl," a delicacy in ancient Rome, from PIE *yekwr- "liver" (see hepatitis). Parasitic -d added 1500s (perhaps on analogy of -ard words). Later extended to other animals, and, jocularly, to human beings (1660s).
双语例句
1. But that fragment of talk lodged , thick, in his small gizzard.
可是谈话的片断却深深盘据在他的小头脑里面.
来自辞典例句
2. From here it travels to the muscular gizzard.
从这里再转移到肌肉质的砂囊.
来自辞典例句
3. It'sticks in my gizzard to do so.
这么做我很不愿意.
来自辞典例句
4. But that but cher was waiting on the dock to slice my gizzard.
但是那个屠夫正在甲板上等着要撕裂我的喉咙.
来自电影对白
5. He said his wife was always fretting her gizzard about something.
