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giblets

Meaningmeat dish

Common meaning: edible internal organs of poultry

Journey through time

  1. Old Frenchgibelet‘meat dish’source
  2. Middle Englishmeaning shiftsmeat dish → fowl partsgibelet‘fowl parts’source
  3. Englishmeaning shiftsfowl parts → edible internal organs of poultrygiblets‘edible internal organs of poultry’ · today

Sources & notes

Meaning: “Meaning” is the sense that emerges from the word’s roots; “Common meaning” is today’s everyday sense. Both written by us.

Pronunciation

  • UK IPA: not available. Respelling: generated.
  • US IPA: not available. Respelling: generated.

Origin: Built on Old French gibelet ‘meat dish’.

Roots

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