offal

== English == === 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”). === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈɒfəl/ (General American, cot–caught merger) IPA(key): /ˈɔfəl/ (General American, father-bother merger) IPA(key): /ˈɑfəl/ Rhymes: -ɒfəl Homophone: awful (cot–caught merger) === Noun === offal (countable and uncountable, plural offals) The internal organs of an animal (entrails or innards), used as food. Synonyms: fancy meat, variety meat A by-product of the grain milling process, which may include bran, husks, etc. 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, [1] 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. A dead body; carrion. That which is thrown away as worthless or unfit for use; refuse; rubbish. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Translations ==== === See also === giblets sweetbread gizzard