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offals

offals is the plural of offal.

Meaning of offal

Noun

offal (countable and uncountable, plural offals)

  1. 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
  2. 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...
  3. A dead body; carrion.
  4. That which is thrown away as worthless or unfit for use; refuse; rubbish.

Questions about offals

What is offals the plural of?
Offals is the plural of offal.

Words near offals in the dictionary

  1. offaliest
  2. offaling
  3. offallier
  4. offalliest
  5. offally
  6. offals
  7. offaly
  8. offangle
  9. offangled
  10. offangles
  11. offangling

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