offal

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noun

Plural noun:

offals

1.
(countable, uncountable)The internal organs of an animal (entrails or innards), used as food.
Đồng nghĩa: fancy meat, variety meat
2.
(countable, uncountable)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 wheat straw, but its blades and tops are so greatly superiour, that cattle prefer them to hay, and will fatten on them as well.
3.
(countable, uncountable)A dead body; carrion.
4.
(countable, uncountable)That which is thrown away as worthless or unfit for use; refuse; rubbish.

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Đồng nghĩa

fancy meatvariety meat

Cùng gốc / liên quan

offallygiblets sweetbread gizzard

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From Middle English offal, offall, offalle (offal, refuse, scrap waste), equivalent to off- + fall. Cognate with Oufal, ôffal, afval, Offall, Abfall, affald, avfall, offeallan to cut off.