offal
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offal
- /ˈɒfəl/ UK
- /ˈɔfəl/ Australia, British, Scotland, Southern, Standard
- /ˈɔfəl/
- /ˈɑfəl/ cot caught merger
Sounds like awful (accents with either the lot–cloth split or the cot–caught merger) · Rhymes with -ɒfəl
Where it comes from
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”).
noun 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.
- 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, https://books.google.ca/books?id=paMBAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false The whole of the corn offal is better food than
- A dead body; carrion.
- That which is thrown away as worthless or unfit for use; refuse; rubbish.
