OFFAL
What does "OFFAL" mean?
The internal organs and trimmings of a butchered animal, used as food or discarded as waste.
Meanings
- The edible internal organs of an animal, such as liver, heart, and kidneys, used in cooking. Traditional cooks prize offal, turning liver and kidneys into dishes city diners rarely try.
- Refuse, scraps, or worthless leftovers of any kind. The flood left the streets strewn with the offal of ruined houses. figurative
Did you know?
- 'Offal' is literally 'off-fall' - the scraps and organs that fell off the butcher's block, named for where they landed rather than what they were worth.
Word origin
From Middle English 'offal', a compound of 'off' and 'fall', literally 'that which falls off' the butcher's block; parallel to Dutch 'afval', meaning waste.
Remember it
OFFAL is 'off-fall' with a letter trimmed: the bits that fall off the butcher's table.
Wordplay
- How was the liver-and-kidney dinner? Offal - and I mean that in the nicest way.
What it teaches
One cook's waste is another's delicacy; what we throw away is mostly a confession about our habits.
Quick facts
What does OFFAL mean?
The internal organs and trimmings of a butchered animal, used as food or discarded as waste.
Is OFFAL a valid word?
Yes — OFFAL is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is OFFAL?
OFFAL has 5 letters and 2 syllables.
Where does OFFAL come from?
From Middle English 'offal', a compound of 'off' and 'fall', literally 'that which falls off' the butcher's block; parallel to Dutch 'afval', meaning waste.
What can OFFAL teach us?
One cook's waste is another's delicacy; what we throw away is mostly a confession about our habits.
How players do
Be the first to solve it.