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gristle
[ gris-uhl ]
noun
- cartilage, especially in meats.
gristle
/ ˈɡrɪsəl /
noun
- cartilage, esp when in meat
Derived Forms
- ˈgristly, adjective
- ˈgristliness, noun
Word History and Origins
Origin of gristle1
Word History and Origins
Origin of gristle1
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.
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.
She was mostly gristle and bone when we saw her, lying in the sun with her legs spread and a grimace on her face.
Savor the perfectly pitched ear required to turn a simple phrase like “a dumpling, some knurled pouch of gristle.”
Bone would prove too unyielding, but cartilage, or gristle, meets the case exactly.
It begins to have a little more consistence, and the future bones begin to resemble cartilage, or gristle.
Remove the fillet from a fine loin of mutton, trim away every particle of skin, fat, and gristle.
There is salt which was in the saliva, in the gristle, and in the blood.
Reivers struck, and Moirs nose disappeared in a welter of blood and gristle.
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