offal
noun/ˈɒfl/
/ˈɔːfl/
[uncountable] (US English also variety meats [plural])
- the inside parts of an animal, such as the heart and liver, cooked and eaten as foodTopics Foodc2Word Originlate 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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