Word of the Day:
offal
What It Means
The internal organs of an animal (entrails or innards), used as food.
A by-product of the grain milling process, which may include bran, husks, etc.
A dead body; carrion.
Offal in Context
“All the insides clean and compact, coming out all together. Nick tossed the offal ashore for the minks to find.”
Did You Know?
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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