offal
UK/ˈɒfəl/
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Australia/ˈɔfəl/
offal noun: the internal organs of an animal (entrails or innards), used as food.
Noun
offal (countable and uncountable, plural offals)
- 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
- Synonyms:
- fancy meat, variety meat
- A by-product of the grain milling process, which may include bran, husks, etc.
- 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.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...
- 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
- A dead body; carrion.
- That which is thrown away as worthless or unfit for use; refuse; rubbish.
offal meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam
offal in Tamil
- இறைச்சிக் கழிவு, இறைச்சியில் எலும்பு சாராத பகுதி, ஊணுறுப்பு, மீனின் பயனற்ற பாகங்கள்
offal in Urdu
- آلائش, فضلہ
offal in Bengali
- পশুর অন্ত্র, বর্জ্য অংশ
offal in Malayalam
- മാംസോച്ഛിഷ്ടം, ചീഞ്ഞ മാംസം, തവിട്, എച്ചിൽ, ചവറ്
More languagesFewer languages
- offal in Odia
- ଝୁଟା jhuṭā
- offal in Indonesian
- jeroan, dalaman, visera
- offal in Thai
- ซากสัตว์ sâak-sàt, เครื่องใน krʉ̂ʉang-nai
Synonyms of offal
Forms of offal
| plural | offals |
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Origin of offal
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”).
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Questions about offal
- What does offal mean?
- Offal means the internal organs of an animal (entrails or innards), used as food.
- What is offal in Tamil?
- Offal in Tamil is இறைச்சிக் கழிவு, இறைச்சியில் எலும்பு சாராத பகுதி, ஊணுறுப்பு. See Offal meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is offal?
- Offal is a noun.
- How do you pronounce offal?
- Offal is pronounced /ˈɒfəl/ (UK).
- What is the plural of offal?
- The plural of offal is offals.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: offal (page history and authors); offal (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); offal (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); offal (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); offal (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ଝୁଟା (Odia) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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