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offal

English

Etymology

From Middle English offal (offal, refuse, scrap waste), possibly from Old Norse affall (offal), or from Middle English of- +? fal(l), equivalent to off- +? fall. Cognate with Danish affald (waste, refuse), Swedish avfall (waste, refuse), Dutch afval (waste, refuse), German Abfall (waste, refuse), Old English offeallan (to cut off). More at off, fall.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /??fl?/
    • Rhymes: -?f?l
  • (US) IPA(key): /??fl?/
  • (US, cotcaught merger, Canada) IPA(key): /??fl?/
    • Rhymes: -??f?l
    • Homophone: awful

Noun

offal (countable and uncountable, plural offals)

  1. The internal organs of an animal, used as animal 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, [1]
      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, [2]
      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, [3]
      [] 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

See also

  • giblets

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viscus

English

Etymology

From New Latin, from Latin viscus (any internal organ of the body), perhaps akin to English viscid.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?v?sk?s/
  • Homophone: viscous
  • Rhymes: -?sk?s

Noun

viscus (plural viscera)

  1. (anatomy) One of the organs, as the brain, heart, or stomach, in the great cavities of the body of an animal; especially used in the plural, and applied to the organs contained in the abdomen.
  2. (anatomy, specifically) The intestines.

Synonyms

  • entrails
  • innards
  • intestines
  • offal

Derived terms

  • eviscerate
  • visceral

Translations

See also

  • viscus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • viscous

References

  • viscus in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
  • viscus in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
  • viscus at OneLook Dictionary Search

Latin

Etymology

Of unclear origin; possibly Proto-Indo-European *weys- (to turn, rotate).

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /?u?is.kus/, [?u??s?k?s?]
  • (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /?vis.kus/, [?viskus]

Noun

viscus n (genitive visceris); third declension

  1. Any internal organ of the body.
  2. (anatomy) entrails, viscera

Declension

Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).

Derived terms

  • viscer?lis

Related terms

  • viscum

Descendants

  • ? English: viscera
  • ? French: viscères
  • Portuguese: víscera

References

Further reading

  • viscus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • viscus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • viscus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
  • Roberts, Edward A. (2014) A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Spanish Language with Families of Words based on Indo-European Roots, Xlibris Corporation, ?ISBN

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