offal

offal

See also: ôffal

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

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• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɒfl̩/
  • Rhymes: -ɒfəl
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈɔfl̩/
• (US, cot–caught merger, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈɑfl̩/
  • Rhymes: -ɔːfəl
  • Homophone: awful

Noun

offal (countable and uncountable, plural offals)

1. The internal organs of an animal, used as food.
2. 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,

     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.

   • 1918, Alonzo Englebert Taylor, War Bread, New York: Macmillan, p. 75,

     Our standard wheat flour contains only the endosperm and represents practically a 75 per cent. extraction. The remaining 25 per cent. is known in the trade as grain offal or mill-feed, and is used largely as a concentrated food for live stock, being prized in the feeding of dairy cattle.

   • 1941, Wheat Studies of the Food Research Institute, Stanford University, Volume 18, p. 96,

     […] the fragments are broken down and the finer particles are collected by sieving; finally, there is the bolting of the assembled fine fractions, with exclusion of the wheat offal which includes bran and a number of other commercial fractions like red dog and shorts.

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

Translations

rejected parts of an animal

Afrikaans: afval Azerbaijani: içalat Bulgarian: животински отпадъци m pl (životinski otpadǎci) Chinese: Mandarin: 內臟／内脏 (zh) (nèizàng) Danish: slagteriaffald n Dutch: slachtafval Esperanto: malpuraĵo Finnish: teurasjäte French: abats (fr) m pl Greek: απορρίματα n pl (aporrímata) Indonesian: jeroan (id), dalaman (id), visera (id) Irish: garr m Norwegian: Bokmål: slakteavfall n Plautdietsch: Schunt n Portuguese: miúdo (pt) m Russian: потроха́ (ru) m pl (potroxá), требуха́ (ru) f (trebuxá) Spanish: despojos (es) m pl, menudencia (es) f, desperdicios (es) m pl Swedish: slaktavfall n, slaktbiprodukt c, slaktbiprodukter c pl Walloon: dispouye (wa) f Westrobothnian: rent f

animal's organs as food

Afrikaans: afval Armenian: please add this translation if you can Azerbaijani: içalat Basque: errai Bulgarian: дреболии (bg) f pl (drebolii) Catalan: víscera f Chinese: Mandarin: 下水 (zh) (xiàshuǐ) Czech: vnitřnosti (cs) f pl, droby Danish: indmad c Dutch: orgaanvlees Esperanto: please add this translation if you can Finnish: sisäelimet (fi) pl French: abats (fr) m pl Galician: miúdos m pl Georgian: შიგნეული (šigneuli), გულ-ღვიძლი (gul-ɣviʒli), ჯიგარი (ǯigari), კუჭმაჭი (ḳuč̣mač̣i) German: Innereien (de) pl Greek: εντόσθια (el) n pl (entósthia) Hungarian: belsőségek (hu) pl Indonesian: jeroan (id) Irish: conamar m Italian: frattaglie (it) f pl Japanese: 臓物 (ja) (ぞうもつ, zōmotsu), もつ (ja) (motsu), ホルモン (horumon) Korean: please add this translation if you can Mongolian: please add this translation if you can Norwegian: Bokmål: innmat m Nynorsk: innmat m Polish: podroby pl Portuguese: miúdos (pt) m pl, cabidela (pt) f (of birds), fressura f, bofes (pt) m pl Romanian: măruntaie (ro) f pl, potroacă (ro) f Russian: потроха́ (ru) m pl (potroxá), требуха́ (ru) f (trebuxá) Spanish: víscera (es) f, menudencia (es) f Swedish: inälvsmat (sv) c, inälvor (sv) c pl (viscera), inkråm n Thai: please add this translation if you can Turkish: sakatat (tr) Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can Walloon: dispouye (wa) f Westrobothnian: inmat m

carrion — see carrion

refuse — see refuse

See also

• giblets