Meanings
- not comparableWithout a gizzard; without guts or innards.
No matter what happened to any one else, Candace had to be pleased: for did not she so manage that most fowls served on mother's table went gizzardless to the carving?
1913, Gene Stratton-Porter, Laddie: A True Blue Story, page 3301 more example
This bird has the distinguishing feature of being unlike any of the grouse family, being gizzardless, having no muscular development of that character, but a membranous sac in its place.
1906, Joel Parker Whitney, Reminiscences of a Sportsman, page 10 - figurativelynot comparableLacking courage, cowardly.
"Heave harder on that peavy handle, you gizzardless scissor-bill, or I'll put the calks to you!"
1925, James Stevens, Paul Bunyan, page 321 more example
If you think you're in pain now, just wait until you see what tomorrow brings, you gizzardless coward.
2013, Rob Davies, Henhouse High Jinx: Mr. Stevens and Friends, page 82
Origin
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