gristle
Plural: gristles
Noun
- Cartilage; tough, inedible tissue found in meat.
- tough elastic tissue; mostly converted to bone in adults
- Cartilage; now especially: cartilage present, as a tough substance, in meat.
- Bone not yet hardened by age and hard work.
Examples
- Some words are pure gristle, difficult to incorporate into a high-scoring play.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English gristel, grystyl, from Old English gristel (“gristle, cartilage”), Proto-West Germanic *gristl, of obscure origin; possibly from a pre-Germanic substrate language. Seemingly equivalent to a diminutive of Old English grist (“a grinding”), equivalent to modern English grist + -le; possibly related to Proto-Germanic *gredaną (“to crunch”). Cognate with Old Frisian gristel, gerstel (“gristle, cartilage”), Middle Low German gristel (“gristle”).
Synonyms
Scrabble Score: 8
gristle: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordgristle: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
gristle: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary
Words With Friends Score: 10
gristle: valid Words With Friends Word