An obsolete English variant of 'gizzard', the muscular second stomach of a bird used to grind food.
An obsolete English variant of 'gizzard', the muscular second stomach of a bird used to grind food. 'Gizzern' preserves an older pronunciation pattern common before 18th-century spelling standardisation. Used in culinary and poultry-keeping contexts; the gizzard itself remains a popular ingredient in French and Southern US cuisines.
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UK and Irish slang — Cockney, Scouse, Geordie, Yorkshire, Glaswegian, Brummie, Welsh, West Country, plus Irish English. Centuries of regional dialects feeding into modern British and Irish street talk.
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The recipe instructed him to clean the gizzern thoroughly before adding it to the giblet gravy.
(UK, obsolete) A gizzard.