English Dictionary |
OFFAL
Pronunciation (US): | (GB): |
Dictionary entry overview: What does offal mean?
• OFFAL (noun)
The noun OFFAL has 1 sense:
1. viscera and trimmings of a butchered animal often considered inedible by humans
Familiarity information: OFFAL used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Viscera and trimmings of a butchered animal often considered inedible by humans
Classified under:
Nouns denoting foods and drinks
Hypernyms ("offal" is a kind of...):
organs; variety meat (edible viscera of a butchered animal)
Context examples
When night came again I found, with pleasure, that the fire gave light as well as heat and that the discovery of this element was useful to me in my food, for I found some of the offals that the travellers had left had been roasted, and tasted much more savoury than the berries I gathered from the trees.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
Learn English with... Proverbs |
"Fun and pleasure are located below the navel; dispute and trouble are also located there." (Bhutanese proverb)
"Smart people are blessed." (Arabic proverb)
"Those who had some shame are dead." (Egyptian proverb)