gizzern Obs. exc. dial.
(ˈgɪzən)
Forms: 4 gisarn, 5 gesarne, -erne, 5–7 gysern(e, 6–7 gisern(e, 7 guis(s)erne, gyzerne, gyzzarn, 8 gizern, 7, 9 dial. gizzern, 9 dial. gizzen, -in.
[App. a variant of giser gizzard; the addition of n is unexplained.]
= gizzard.
| 1398 Trevisa Barth. De P.R. v. xliv. (1495) 161 The fyrste mete of the fowles is receyuyd and kepte in the croppe to the seconde dygestyon, that shall be made in the gisarn or mawe. c 1440 Promp. Parv. 195/1 Gyserne (P. of fowles). 1530 Palsgr. 225/1 Gyserne of a foule, jevsier. a 1605 Montgomerie Flyting 331 Thy gall and thy guisserne to glaids shall bee given. 1611 Cotgr., Sauce froide, Another [sauce] made of the liuers, and giserns of chickens. 1693 Sir T. P. Blount Nat. Hist. 10 Shaped like a split Gysern. 1707 Floyer Physic. Pulse Watch xx. (1710) 149 The inward skin of Gizerns powder'd. 1878 Cumbld. Gloss., Gizzern, Gizzin, gizzard. ‘It sticks in his gizzern’—he remembers it with unpleasant feelings. |