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Offal

Definition: Offal

Offal

Noun

1. 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)

 

Specialty Definition: Offal

DomainDefinition

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.

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Specialty Definition: Offal

(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."

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Synonyms within Context: Offal

ContextSynonyms 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.

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Crosswords: Offal

English words defined with "offal": Dog's meatGrallochLeavings. (references)
Specialty definitions using "offal": BONE PICKER, BOX-TRUCK WASHERcharge loader, COOKER LOADER, COOKER TENDERDraught-housegrease-press helper, GubbingsHOPPER FEEDEROFFAL ICER, POULTRYPRESS OPERATORROTARY CUTTERspecified offals ban, STEM-DRYER MAINTAINER, SUPERVISOR, TANK HOUSEtank charger. (references)

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Modern Usage: Offal

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

TV Offal (1997)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Offal

DomainTitle

References

  • The 2000-2005 Outlook for Offal in Asia (reference)

  • The World Market for Fresh or Chilled Edible Offal of Sheep and Horses: A 2004 Global Trade Perspective (reference)

    (more reference examples)

  

Books

  • The 2000-2005 Outlook for Offal in Africa (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Use in Literature: Offal

TitleAuthorQuote

Neverwhere

Neil Gaiman

"Garbage! Trash! Offal! Debris! Come and get it! Nothing whole or undamaged! Crap, tripe and useless piles of shit

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Offal

SubjectTopicQuote

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.

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Usage Frequency: Offal

"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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%6740,952

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: Offal

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "offal": offal-burning, offal-flies.

Ending with "offal": pig-offal.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Offal

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

offal

15

offal pork

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Offal

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.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Offal

Derivations

Words beginning with "offal": offals. (additional references)


Misspellings

"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).

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Anagrams: Offal

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.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Quotations: Fiction
6. Quotations: Non-fiction
7. Usage Frequency
8. Expressions
9. Expressions: Internet
10. Translations: Modern
11. Derivations
12. Anagrams
13. Bibliography


  

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