offal en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- /ˈɑfəl/ (cot-caught-merger)
- /ˈɒfəl/ (Received-Pronunciation)
- /ˈɔfəl/ (Australia, British, Scotland, Southern, Standard)
- audio SSB
- /ˈɔfəl/ without the cot–caught merger
Etymology
From Middle English offal, offall, offalle (“offal, refuse, scrap waste”), equivalent to off- + fall. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Oufal (“offal”), West Frisian ôffal (“offal”), Dutch afval (“waste, refuse”), German Low German Offall (“offal”), German Abfall (“waste, refuse”), Danish affald (“waste, refuse”), Swedish avfall (“waste, refuse”), Old English offeallan (“to cut off”).
Meanings
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(countable, uncountable) The internal organs of an animal (entrails or innards), used as food.
All the insides clean and compact, coming out all together. Nick tossed the offal ashore for the minks to find.
1925, Ernest Hemingway, “Big Two-Hearted River Part II”, in In Our Time:
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(countable, uncountable) A by-product of the grain milling process, which may include bran, husks, etc.
[…] the fragments are broken down and the finer particles are collected by sieving; finally, there is the bolting of the assembled fine fractions, with exclusion of the wheat offal which includes bran and a number of other commercial fractions like red dog and shorts.
1941, Wheat Studies of the Food Research Institute, volume 18, Stanford University, page 96:1817, John Taylor, Arator; Being a Series of Agricultural Essays Practical and Political in Sixty-One Numbers, Baltimore: John M. Carter, No. 32, Indian Corn, p. 96, https://books.google.ca/books?id=paMBAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false The whole of the corn offal is better food than wheat straw, but its blades and tops are so greatly superiour, that cattle prefer them to hay, and will fatten on them as well.
Our standard wheat flour contains only the endosperm and represents practically a 75 per cent. extraction. The remaining 25 per cent. is known in the trade as grain offal or mill-feed, and is used largely as a concentrated food for live stock, being prized in the feeding of dairy cattle.
1918, Alonzo Englebert Taylor, War Bread, New York: Macmillan, page 75:
- (countable, uncountable) A dead body; carrion.
- (countable, uncountable) That which is thrown away as worthless or unfit for use; refuse; rubbish.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| offals | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Deriveds
Relateds
gizzard · sweetbread · giblets
Synonyms
Translations (81)
ca víscera (animal's organs as food) · cs vnitřnosti (animal's organs as food) · ga garr (rejected parts of an animal) · th ซากสัตว์ (rejected parts of an animal) · id jeroan (rejected parts of an animal) · eo buĉrubo (animal's organs as food) · fi sisäelimet (animal's organs as food) · ka გულ-ღვიძლი (animal's organs as food) · pt cabidela (animal's organs as food) · pl podroby (animal's organs as food) · nb innmat (animal's organs as food) · ka კუჭმაჭი (animal's organs as food) · ota ایچ (animal's organs as food) · fr abats (rejected parts of an animal) · pt miúdos (animal's organs as food) · cmn 內臟 /内脏 (rejected parts of an animal) · eo malpuraĵo (rejected parts of an animal) · el εντόσθια (animal's organs as food) · is innmatur (animal's organs as food) · af afval (rejected parts of an animal) · ru потроха́ (animal's organs as food) · hu belsőségek (animal's organs as food) · az içalat (animal's organs as food) · nn innmat (animal's organs as food) · ru потроха́ (rejected parts of an animal) · es despojos (rejected parts of an animal) · es desperdicios (rejected parts of an animal) · sv slaktbiprodukt (rejected parts of an animal) · da slagteriaffald (rejected parts of an animal) · ja ホルモン (animal's organs as food) · gl miúdos (animal's organs as food) · pt fressura (animal's organs as food) · pt bofes (animal's organs as food) · cs droby (animal's organs as food) · de Innereien (animal's organs as food) · ro potroacă (animal's organs as food) · sv inkråm (animal's organs as food) · sv slaktbiprodukter (rejected parts of an animal) · wa dispouye (animal's organs as food) · cmn 下水 (rejected parts of an animal) · th เครื่องใน (animal's organs as food) · bg дреболии (animal's organs as food) · tr sakatat (animal's organs as food) · eo visceraĵo (animal's organs as food) · da indmad (animal's organs as food) · ru требуха́ (rejected parts of an animal) · nl orgaanvlees (animal's organs as food) · bg животински отпадъци (rejected parts of an animal) · sv inälvsmat (animal's organs as food) · eu errai (animal's organs as food) · sv slaktavfall (rejected parts of an animal) · it frattaglie (animal's organs as food) · es menudencia (animal's organs as food) · ga conamar (animal's organs as food) · eo tripaĵo (animal's organs as food) · vec interiori (animal's organs as food) · ja もつ (animal's organs as food) · fi teurasjäte (rejected parts of an animal) · ka ჯიგარი (animal's organs as food) · sv inälvor (animal's organs as food) · vec picaja (animal's organs as food) · af afval (animal's organs as food) · es menudencia (rejected parts of an animal) · fr abats (animal's organs as food) · el απορρίματα (rejected parts of an animal) · nl slachtafval (rejected parts of an animal) · pt miúdo (rejected parts of an animal) · cmn 下水 (animal's organs as food) · mk внатрешници (rejected parts of an animal) · id jeroan (animal's organs as food) · id dalaman (rejected parts of an animal) · mk внатрешници (animal's organs as food) · nb slakteavfall (rejected parts of an animal) · ka შიგნეული (animal's organs as food) · ru требуха́ (animal's organs as food) · id visera (rejected parts of an animal) · wa dispouye (rejected parts of an animal) · ro măruntaie (animal's organs as food) · pdt Schunt (rejected parts of an animal) · ja 臓物 (animal's organs as food) · az içalat (rejected parts of an animal)