Liberal Dictionary English Dictionary
plural noun
- the heart, liver, gizzard, and the like, of a fowl, often cooked separately.
pl n
- (sometimes singular) the gizzard, liver, heart, and neck of a fowl
see giblets.
mid-15c. (in singular, gybelet), from Old French gibelet “game stew,” of uncertain origin, perhaps from Frankish *gabaiti “hunting with falcons,” related to Old High German beizan “to fly a falcon,” literally “to cause to bite,” from bizzan “to bite.”