gristle

[ gris-uhl ]

/ ˈgrɪs əl /

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noun

cartilage, especially in meats.

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Origin of gristle

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

Words nearby gristle

grison, Grisons, grissini, grist, grist for the mill, gristle, gristly, gristmill, Griswold, Griswold versus Connecticut, grit

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How to use gristle in a sentence

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.
Kyrie Irving Is Not the Real Villain Here|Corbin Smith|December 20, 2021|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.
Future of TV Briefing: Media companies grapple with getting advertisers to buy their platform video inventory|Tim Peterson|January 27, 2021|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.
The Right and Left Are Wrong About My Movie|Sebastian Junger|July 21, 2010|DAILY BEAST
Savor the perfectly pitched ear required to turn a simple phrase like “a dumpling, some knurled pouch of gristle.”
The Slacker Generation's Swift|Gerald Howard|March 3, 2010|DAILY BEAST

Bone would prove too unyielding, but cartilage, or gristle, meets the case exactly.
Voice Production in Singing and Speaking|Wesley Mills
It begins to have a little more consistence, and the future bones begin to resemble cartilage, or gristle.
The Matron's Manual of Midwifery, and the Diseases of Women During Pregnancy and in Childbed|Frederick Hollick
Remove the fillet from a fine loin of mutton, trim away every particle of skin, fat, and gristle.
Nelson's Home Comforts|Mary Hooper
There is salt which was in the saliva, in the gristle, and in the blood.
The Chautauquan, Vol. III, January 1883|The Chautauquan Literary and Scientific Circle
Reivers struck, and Moirs nose disappeared in a welter of blood and gristle.
The Snow-Burner|Henry Oyen

British Dictionary definitions for gristle

gristle

/ (ˈɡrɪsəl) /

noun

cartilage, esp when in meat

Derived forms of gristle

gristly, adjectivegristliness, noun

Word Origin for gristle

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

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