gristle

[ gris-uhl ]

noun

1. cartilage, especially in meats.

gristle

/ ˈɡrɪsəl /

noun

1. cartilage, esp when in meat

Derived Forms

• ˈgristly, adjective
• ˈgristliness, noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of gristle¹

before 900; Middle English, Old English; cognate with Old Frisian, Middle Low German gristal; akin to Old English grost cartillage

Word History and Origins

Origin of gristle¹

Old English gristle; related to Old Frisian, Middle Low German gristel

Example Sentences

Kyrie is such a massive pain in the ass that he doesn’t even give humble writers the gristle to pigeonhole him as a particular type of anti-vaxxer.

From The Daily Beast

As an advertiser, “you have to get comfortable with the fact that, if you’re buying sausage, there’s going to be a lot of fat and gristle in there,” this executive said.

From Digiday

She was mostly gristle and bone when we saw her, lying in the sun with her legs spread and a grimace on her face.

From The Daily Beast

Savor the perfectly pitched ear required to turn a simple phrase like “a dumpling, some knurled pouch of gristle.”

From The Daily Beast

Bone would prove too unyielding, but cartilage, or gristle, meets the case exactly.

From Project Gutenberg

It begins to have a little more consistence, and the future bones begin to resemble cartilage, or gristle.

From Project Gutenberg

Remove the fillet from a fine loin of mutton, trim away every particle of skin, fat, and gristle.

From Project Gutenberg

There is salt which was in the saliva, in the gristle, and in the blood.

From Project Gutenberg

Reivers struck, and Moirs nose disappeared in a welter of blood and gristle.

From Project Gutenberg