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Definition: Offal |
OffalNoun1. Viscera and trimmings of a butchered animal often considered inedible by humans. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "offal" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1596. (references) |
Note: Offal \Of"fal\, noun. [Off fall.]. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Agriculture | The less valuable byproduct material from the preparation of a specific product; primarily refers to the byproducts of meat and poultry plants, e.g., blood, bone, feathers, fat. (references) |
Food & Agriculture | The edible entrails of animals prepared for food. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Offal is the waste parts of a butchered animal of the inedible portions of food animals, fowl and fish.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Offal."
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Uncleanness | Spawn, offal, gurry; lientery; garbage, carrion; excreta; slough, peccant humor, pus, matter, suppuration, lienteria; faeces, feces, excrement, ordure, dung, crap, sewage, sewerage; muck; coprolite; guano, manure, compost. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Offal |
| English words defined with "offal": Dog's meat ♦ Gralloch ♦ Leavings. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "offal": BONE PICKER, BOX-TRUCK WASHER ♦ charge loader, COOKER LOADER, COOKER TENDER ♦ Draught-house ♦ grease-press helper, Gubbings ♦ HOPPER FEEDER ♦ OFFAL ICER, POULTRY ♦ PRESS OPERATOR ♦ ROTARY CUTTER ♦ specified offals ban, STEM-DRYER MAINTAINER, SUPERVISOR, TANK HOUSE ♦ tank charger. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | TV Offal (1997) | |
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| Domain | Title |
References | |
Books | |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Neverwhere | Neil Gaiman | "Garbage! Trash! Offal! Debris! Come and get it! Nothing whole or undamaged! Crap, tripe and useless piles of shit |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Economic History | Egypt | The US also dominates the beef liver and offal import market. (references) |
China | The pork import market, although very large, is exclusively offal. (references) | |
China | The most popular cuts of imported beef offal are stomach and tendons. (references) | |
Trade | Poland | Importers of meat, meat products, and offal must obtain a veterinary permit and the health certificate issued by USDA's veterinary authorities must accompany each consignment. (references) |
Taiwan | Prohibited Imports: In addition to the current import quotas for chicken meat, pork bellies, red meat offal and potatoes, several important agricultural products, including rice, peanuts, and selected dairy products, are banned outright. (references) | |
Taiwan | Upon WTO accession, Taiwan will establish TRQs for currently banned products such as pork bellies, chicken meat, pork offal, poultry offal, liquid milk, peanuts, small red beans, garlic bulbs, some fruit and vegetables, rice and rice products. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Offal" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Offal" is used about 67 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 67 | 40,952 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "offal": offal-burning, offal-flies. | |
Ending with "offal": pig-offal. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
offal | 15 |
offal pork | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "offal"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | rropulli (inside), plehra (dust, garbage, mullock, offscourings, recrement, refuse, rejectamenta, rubbish, sweeping, sweepings, tailings, trash, waste), përbrendësa, hedhurina (junk, mullock, refuse, rejectamenta, rubbish, throw out, truck). (various references) | |
Arabic | فضلات (leftover, pickings, remainder, remains, residue), نفايات (dumps, litter, refuse, shoddy, spoil, tailings), سقط المتاع (junk, lumber, raffle, rubbish, stuff, tat, trash, write off). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | смет (dirt, dust, litter, mullock, raffle, refuse, rejectamenta, rubbish, sweepings), трици (bran), карантия (inwards, pluck), остатъци (debris, dregs, junk, leftovers, odd-come-shorts, oddments, odds and ends, pickings, remainder, rinsings, trash, waste), отпадъци (carrion, dregs, dross, garbage, husks, junk, leavings, litter, pickings, refuse, rejectamenta, rubbish, scobs, scrapings, stock, throw out, throwaway, trash, waste, write-offs), мърша (carrion, dog's meat), евтина долнокачествена риба. (various references) | |
Chinese | 肚杂碎. (various references) | |
Czech | odpadky (garbage, litter, oddments, offscourings, refuse, rubbish, trash, trimmings), odpad (detritus, drain, outfall, outlet, refuse, scrap, waste), zbytky (detritus, leavings, leftovers, oddments, odds and ends, remains, rummage), vnitřnosti (bowels, entrails, guts, harslet, haslet, insides, viscera), droby (tripe). (various references) | |
Danish | slagteaffald, laederaffald, indmad (giblets). (various references) | |
Dutch | inwendige organen, garnituren, afvallen (apostatize, desert, drop, drop out, fall, fall away, fall off, lose, lose flesh, lose in weight, secede, tumble down), afval (apostasy, clippings, cuttings, debris, defection, garbage, leavings, parings, refuse, remainder, rest, rubbish, rubble, waste, windfall). (various references) | |
Finnish | osituspalat, sisäelin (internal organ), jätteet (garbage, leavings, refuse, rubbish, table scraps). (various references) | |
French | ordures, détritus, dépouille, déchets, déchet, abats. (various references) | |
German | innereien (bowel, bowels, entrails, giblets, innards, inwards, pluck), abfall (apostasy, breakaway, breaking away, declension, defection, drop, garbage, litter, offall, refuse, rubbish, slide, trash, wastage, waste). (various references) | |
Greek | εντόσθια (inwards, viscera). (various references) | |
Hebrew | ממ"ר'" מוכ", מפל (fall, refuse), שירים (ends, hash, leftovers, remainder, remains, residue), פסולת (dregs, junk, litter, refuse, riffraff, rubbish, sweepings, trash, waste), 'בב" (straw, stubble). (various references) | |
Hungarian | törmelék (chippings, debris, detritus, potsherd, refuse, rubbish, rubble, scrap, shatter, slump scraps, wreckage), szemét (dreck, dross, garbage, have no end of money, litter, punk, rubbish, rubbishy, scum, sleaze, sleazo, sleazy, snotty, sodding, stinky, sweepings, trash), hulladék (cabbage, clippings, cut-offs, cuttings, debris, dross, end, garbage, junk, lop, oddments, paring, pickings, refuse, scrapings, spilt, spoilage, sweepings, trash, wastage, waste), hordalék (alluvion, alluvium, burden, drift, river deposits, silt, wash). (various references) | |
Italian | frattaglie (chitterlings, entrails, giblets, harslet, haslet, lights, pluck). (various references) | |
Manx | meslin (mash, mixed grain), jerrey (back, back of cart, bottom, close, closing, closure, conclusion, effect, end, expiration, expiry, extreme, finale, finish, hinderpart, stern, termination), bee brisht (giblets). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | offalay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | sobra (balance, end, hangover, leftover, over, overplus, remainder, remnant, rest, waste), resto (drain, hangover, heel, leftover, odd-come-short, remainder, remnant, residual, residue, residuum, rest), resíduos (combings, leavings, sediment), resíduo (draff, marc, remainder, residual, residue, residuum, spoilage), refugo (cull, dirt, garbage, jetsam, mullock, offscourings, raffle, refuse, reject, riffraff, rubbish, scum, spoilage, trash, trumpery), miudezas (oddments, odds and ends, sundry), farelo (bran), carne putrefata (carrion, dog's-meat), borda do crepão. (various references) | |
Romanian | stârv (carcase, carrion), resturi (draff, garbage, Grout, jetsam, leavings, litter, odd-come-shorts, odds and ends, parings, picking, refuse, remain, remains, remnants, rubbish, scrap, scraps, tailings, wreck), rãmãşiţe de carne (broken meat), potroace (giblets, pluck), peşte ieftin, mãruntaie (bowel, depths, entrails, giblets, innards, inside, tripe, viscera, womb), leş (corpse, corpus). (various references) | |
Russian | требуха (chitterlings), отбросы (chaff, cheese-parings, dross, filth, garbage, junk, leavings, mullock, offscourings, recrement, refuse, rejectamenta, tailings, throw out, throw-out, waifs and strays, waste), потроха (giblet, harslet, haslet, pluck), падаль (carrion, dog's meat), дешевая рыба. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | otpaci (dross, litter, odds and ends, refuse, sewage, stuff, trash), iznutrice (bowels, entrails, intestines, inwards), drob (bowel, entrails, pluck). (various references) | |
Spanish | vísceras (entrails, viscera), residuos (dregs, leak, scraps, waste), rebordes, menudos, menudencias (details), entrañas (bowels, entrails, innards), desperdicios (refuse, remains, rubbish, swill, trash, waste), bazofia (hog-wash, pigswill, swill), asaduras (pluck). (various references) | |
Swedish | inälvor (bowels, entrails, guts, innards, intestines, inwards, tripe, viscera), avskräde (dross, garbage), avfall (apostasy, backsliding, chips, cutting, cuttings, defection, dross, falling away, garbage, leavings, litter, odd-come-short, recrement, refuse, rejectamenta, waste). (various references) | |
Thai | เครื่องในสัตว์. (various references) | |
Turkish | sakatat (giblets, pluck, variety meat), hayvanın yenmeyen parçaları, çerçöp (brushwood, crap, dirt, offscourings, trash). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | тельбухи (chitterling, tripe), відходи виробництва, висівки (bran, chaff, chisel, pug), потрухи, покидьки (cast, cull, dross, offscum, outcast, overcast, paltry, peltry, refuse, rejectamenta, scruff, trash), падло (carrion), дешева риба. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | tấm (plaque, sheet, slab, tablet), loại kém (third-rater), bổi, đầu (extremity, premier, primary, tab, tip), đ" vứt đi, đ" bỏ di. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "offal": offals. (additional references) | |
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"Offal" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: afal, affa, Afzal, Boffa, Iffa, Ifzal, ofa, O'fail, ofal, ofall, ofat, ofay, ofel, offa, offals, offan, offat, offay, offem, Offgas, offi, Offley, offsale, offwat, oflag, oflal, Orfila, orf'ly. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-f-f-l-o" | |
-1 letter: foal, loaf. | |
-2 letters: aff, oaf, off. | |
-3 letters: al, fa, la, lo, of. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-f-f-l-o" | |
+1 letter: layoff, offals. | |
+2 letters: boffola, buffalo, falloff, fanfold, layoffs, leadoff, offload, playoff. | |
+3 letters: blastoff, boffolas, buffalos, daffodil, falloffs, fanfolds, flatfoot, footfall, leadoffs, official, offloads, playoffs, scaffold, scofflaw. | |
+4 letters: blastoffs, buffaloed, buffaloes, cowlstaff, daffodils, falciform, fanfolded, flatfoots, flavorful, footfalls, footfault, officials, officinal, offloaded, safflower, scaffolds, scofflaws. | |
+5 letters: affliction, affordable, affordably, buffaloing, cowlstaffs, fanfolding, flameproof, flatfooted, foamflower, footfaults, officially, offloading, safflowers, scaffolded, unofficial. | |
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