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offal noun [ ˈɒf(ə)l ]

• the entrails and internal organs of an animal used as food.
• "eating pieces of braised offal turned his stomach"
Origin: late Middle English (in the sense ‘refuse from a process’): probably suggested by Middle Dutch afval, from af ‘off’ + vallen ‘to fall’.


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