offal

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈɒfəl/|/ˈɔfəl/    美 /ˈɔfəl/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The internal organs of an animal (entrails or innards), used as food. countable,uncountable
  2. A by-product of the grain milling process, which may include bran, husks, etc. countable,uncountable
    — 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. A dead body; carrion. countable,uncountable
  4. That which is thrown away as worthless or unfit for use; refuse; rubbish. countable,uncountable

词形变化

offals plural

词汇关系

衍生词
offally
相关词
giblets sweetbread gizzard

词源

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”).
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