Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun plural The edible heart, liver, and gizzard of a fowl.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun plural The inmeats, or edible viscera (heart, gizzard, liver, etc.), of poultry.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The
internal organs ofpoultry birds , these organs being used as food.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun edible viscera of a fowl
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Remove the giblets from the cavity of the chicken.
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Just in case you are wondering what giblets are doing in the last answer, giblets is the translation of the popular grilled beef restaurant dish ホルモン, or hormone, which I wonder if it has similar overtones to that of the English word from which the Japanese derives.
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Remove the giblets from the cavity of the chicken.
Archives: (Christine’s) Sunday Night Whole Roasted Chicken : The Cooking Adventures of Chef Paz 2009
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Very often the giblets, that is, the liver, heart, and gizzard of chicken, are used in making gravy.
Woman's Institute Library of Cookery Volume 3: Soup; Meat; Poultry and Game; Fish and Shell Fish
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You may make a gravy of the giblets, that is the neck, pinions, liver, heart and gizzard, stewed in a little water, thickened with butter rolled in flour, and seasoned with pepper and salt.
Directions for Cookery, in its Various Branches Eliza Leslie 1822
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Don't add turkey "giblets" which often come packed inside the turkey.
Archive 2008-11-01 Kalyn Denny 2008
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Don't add turkey "giblets" which often come packed inside the turkey.
How to Make Turkey Stock Kalyn Denny 2008
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The members who have businesses need the loan to buy products such as giblets and fabrics, and those who work in services need it for family expenses, like their children's education.
Kiva Loans 2010
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I thought that overall the story had a great mixture of dark humor, suspense, sex, and of course gallons and gallons of blood, brains, intestines and other 'giblets'.
Ain't It Cool News - The best in movie, TV, DVD, and comic book news. 2009
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"giblets" they had already disposed of, so that not the smallest fragment could be seen lying about.
The Plant Hunters Adventures Among the Himalaya Mountains Mayne Reid 1850
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