Tripe

Definition: Tripe

Tripe

Noun

1. Lining of the stomach of a ruminant (especially a bovine) used as food.

2. Nonsensical talk or writing.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "tripe" was first used: 13th century. (references)

Etymology: Tripe \Tripe\, noun. [from Old English expression tripe, French tripe; of uncertain origin; compage to the Spanish expression Portuguese tripa, Italian trippa, OD. tripe, Welsh tripa, Armor. stripen.]. (references)

Dream Interpretation

Slang in 1811

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

Synonyms: Tripe

Crosswords: Tripe

Something borrowed, something blue, old, new. Rice and old shoes, carry you over the threshold, Niagara Falls, all the silly tripe I've made fun of for years (Arsenic and Old Lace; writing credit: Ryuzo Kikushima; Akira Kurosawa)

Gizzards, Scrapple & Tripe (performing artist: New Duncan Imperials)

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

Books

• A diet of tripe : the chequered history of food reform (reference)

  (more book examples)

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Brussels, Belgium, 1940-44(?)--People lining up at a butcher shop for their rations of one ounce of meat (beef, horse, dog, cat or tripe) which they get about once a week. Credit: Library of Congress.

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

Economic History

Poland

After Mexico, Poland is the largest importer of U.S. beef tripe. (references)

Poland

Demand for U.S. and Australian tripe has remained stable for the past several years. (references)

Poland

U.S. tripe is imported for processing and production of the traditional Polish soup called "Flaki". (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "tripe": honeycomb tripe ♦ rock tripe ♦ tripe and oval shop ♦ tripe shop ♦ tripe soup. Additional references.

Beginning with "tripe": Tripe-de-roche.

Ending with "tripe": rock-tripe.

Albanian

plënc (paunch), kukurec. (various references)

Arabic 

‏أمعاء (bowel, bowels, entrails, gut, intestines, viscera), ‏شىء تافه (bagatelle, bauble, bosh, damn, duffer, dust, fluff, frivolity, froth, gewgaw, hog, joke, piffling, small beer, triviality). (various references)

Bulgarian 

черва (bowels, entrails, guts, intestines), шкембе (paunch, pot, potbelly), буламач (concoction, trash), боклук (dirt, dross, dud, fug, garbage, junk heap, litter, mullock, odd-come-shorts, punk, raffle, rubbish, scrap heap, shoddy, spilth, trash, waste), безсмислици (baloney, bilge, gibberish, rubbish). (various references)

Chinese 

肚 (belly). (various references)

Czech

nesmysl (absurdity, balderdash, bunk, nonsense, nuts, rot, rubbish, trumpery), droby (offal), šmejd (dog, junk, shoddy, trash, trumpery). (various references)

Farsi 

سیرابی , شکمبه , دکان سیرابی , بی ارزش (Junky, Naught, Nothing, Punk, Rubbish, Unvalued). (various references)

French

tripes, inepties, bêtises (trumpery). (various references)

German

Kaldaunen (entrails). (various references)

Greek 

στόμαχοσ βοόσ, στομάχι ζώων, πάτσα, πατσάσ (tripe soup), πατσάς. (various references)

Hungarian

pacal (crow). (various references)

Italian

trippa, sciocchezze (applesauce, balderdash, baloney, bosh, nuts, poppycock, rot, rubbish, shucks). (various references)

Manx

gailley (appetite, belly, digestion, paunch; thrush, stomach, tummy, ventricle). (various references)

Pig Latin

ipetray.(various references)

Portuguese

tripas (chitterlings, entrails), tolice (applesauce, barney, blunder, bosh, bungle, fiddle-de-dee, flapdoodle, folly, foolery, foolishness, guff, gup, howler, ineptitude, ineptness, infelicity, moonshine, mush, nonsense, piffle, rot, silliness, simplicity, tomfoolery, tommy rot, twaddle, unreason), entranhas (bowels, entrails, garbage, gut, innards, womb), droga (chaff, doping, drug, nostrum, physic, shebang), disparate (absurdity, balderdash, blather, blether, bloomer, bosh, bull, bunk, disparate, fiddle-de-dee, fiddlestick, flapdoodle, flummery, foolery, foolishness, fribble, fudge, guff, gup, hot, howler, moonshine, mush, nonsense, piffle, punk, simplicity, skittle, tomfoolery, tommy rot, tump, twaddle, unreason, unwisdom), bucho (maw, stomach). (various references)

Romanian

prostii (apple-sauce, balderdash, bosh, drivel, eyewash, fiddle-faddle, fiddlesticks, fudge, gammon, moonshine, mush, nonsense, poppy-cock, rats, rubbish, skittles, stuff and nonsense, tosh, trash), nimicuri (candle-end, paraphernalia, rubble, tinsel, truck), mãruntaie (bowel, depths, entrails, giblets, innards, inside, offal, viscera, womb), fleacuri (babble, bosh, bunk, cheese, fiddlededee, fiddle-faddle, flim-flam, froth, gammon, humbug, odd trifles, skittles, tosh, whatnot), burtã de vacã, bojoc. (various references)

Russian 

рубец (cicatrice, rumen, rumina, scar, seam, sword cut, weal). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

škembići (chitterlings). (various references)

Sotho

dikahare. (various references)

Spanish

mondongo, guata (batting, paunch, raw cotton, wad, wadding), fruslerías, callos (calluses), bobadas (humbug, twaddle). (various references)

Swedish

smörja (anoint, bilge, corn, crap, daub, dirt, dope, drivel, dub, fiddlededee, grease, junk, kitsch, lubricate, muck, oil, rubbish, shoddy, smear, tosh, trash), skit (crap, dirt, poop), komage, inälvor (bowels, entrails, guts, innards, intestines, inwards, offal, viscera). (various references)

Turkish

saçma (absurd, applesauce, balls, baloney, blind, boloney, bunk, bunkum, chimerical, claptrap, cockeyed, dissemination, eradiation, fantastic, fantastical, farcical, fatuous, fiddle, fiddle-de-dee, fiddlesticks, foolish, for the birds, froth, frothy, fudge, go on, hog-wash, hooey, impertinent, inane, incongruous, inept, irrational, jabber wocky, kibosh, laugh, malarkey, nonsense, nonsensical, outlandish, paltry, pointless, poppycock, raving, rhubarb, rot, scattering, senseless, shot, shucks, skittles, small shot, smearcase, sorry, spinach, stuff, tommyrot, tosh, trash, trifling, trivial, trumpery, unreasonable, wacky, waffle, whacky), işkembe (paunch, rumen), boş lâf (applesauce, babble, balderdash, bosh, bunkum, comment, empty words, falderal, fiddle, fiddle-de-dee, flimflam, flubdub, flummery, froth, fudge, gab, galimatias, garbage, gas, guff, haver, hokum, hooey, hot air, inanity, jazz, lark, moonshine, palaver, poppycock, punk, routine, small talk, talky-talk, vaporings, vapourings, waffle, wind, wishy-wash). (various references)

Ukrainian

рубець (cicatrix, paunch, rumen, scar, score, welt, whelk), тельбухи (chitterling, offal), погань (draff, foul, muck, rotter), дурниця (absurdity, absurdness, applesauce, balderdash, ballyhoo, bosh, buncombe, froth, humbug, mush, nonsense, piffle, poppycock, porridge, rigmarole, rubbish, sappiness, shucks, slum, trash). (various references)

Vietnamese 

vật vô giá trị (cipher, nullity), cuốn tiểu thuyết t�"i, chuyên vô vị, b� i văn dở. (various references)

corda, cordis. (various references)

therb. (various references)

tripe. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "tripe": tripedal, tripes. (additional references)

Words ending with "tripe": pinstripe, stripe. (additional references)

Words containing "tripe": centripetal, centripetally, pinstriped, pinstripes, striped, stripeless, striper, stripers, stripes. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Tripe" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: eripe, shripe, Taipa, taipe, tipe, tipee, Tipu, tirp, Tirpak, tirpit, toipe, torip, Trapa, trapse, treep, treip, trepay, trepe, Trepov, treppe, triap, Triepel, trife, trige, trile, trime, tripa, triped, tripeg, tripeo, triper, tripey, tripi, tripin, tripo, trippen, trippy, tript, tripyer, trirex, triup, triwe, trize, tropa, Tropea, tropoe, troppe, trpe, trppe, Truppe, trypt, twrip, uripe. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: peri, pert, pier, ripe, rite, tier, tire, trip.

-2 letters: ire, per, pet, pie, pit, rei, rep, ret, rip, tie, tip.

-3 letters: er, et, it, pe, pi, re, ti.

+1 letter: esprit, permit, pirate, pitier, priest, privet, protei, pterin, pyrite, redipt, ripest, sprite, stripe, tipper, trepid, tripes, triple, typier.

+2 letters: apteria, cuprite, diopter, dioptre, diptera, emptier, esprits, firepot, hipster, imprest, imputer, overtip, painter, paretic, partied, partier, parties, partite, pastier, peatier, periapt, peridot, perlite, permits, persist, pertain, pestier, petrify, pettier, philter, philtre, piaster, piastre, picrate, picrite, picture, piefort, pierrot, pirated, pirates, pitcher, pithier, pitiers, plaiter, platier, pointer, poitrel, politer, pottier, poutier, predict, preedit, premixt, preriot, presift, pretrim, pricket, priests, primate, printed, printer, prithee, private, privets, prostie, proteid, protein, pterins, puttier, pyretic, pyrites, receipt, repaint, reposit, reprint, reptile, respite, resplit, riposte, ripplet, riptide, ropiest, spirted, spitter, spriest, sprites, stirpes, striped, striper, stripes, tiderip, tippers, tippier, tippler, tipsier, tipster, traipse, triceps, tripled, triples, triplet, triplex, tripped, tripper, trippet, tropine, wiretap, writeup, yperite.