gizzard

英 ['g?z?d] 美['ɡ?z?d]

復(fù)數(shù):?gizzards;

gizzard 鳥胗

來(lái)自PIE*yekwr, 肝臟，詞源同hepatitis.

gizzard: 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).

1. But that fragment of talk lodged , thick, in his small gizzard.: 可是談話的片斷卻深深盤據(jù)在他的小頭腦里面.

2. From here it travels to the muscular gizzard.: 從這里再轉(zhuǎn)移到肌肉質(zhì)的砂囊.

4. But that but cher was waiting on the dock to slice my gizzard.: 但是那個(gè)屠夫正在甲板上等著要撕裂我的喉嚨.

5. He said his wife was always fretting her gizzard about something.: 他說(shuō)他的太太總是自尋煩惱.