OFFAL

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 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 

• OFFAL (noun)

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)