offaln.adj.

Brit.

/ˈɒfl/, U.S.

/ˈɔf(ə)l/,

/ˈɑf(ə)l/

Forms: Middle English offaile, Middle English offale, Middle English orfayle, Middle English 1700s offel, Middle English–1500s offalle, Middle English–1600s offall, Middle English– offal, 1500s offawle, 1500s offole, 1600s offell, 1600s offoll, 1600s uffal, 1600s uffall, 1600s–1700s off-fall, 1700s of-fall, 1700s offill; English regional 1800s– hoffle (midlands), 1800s– offil, 1800s– offle, 1900s– auffol (East Anglian), 1900s– hoffal (midlands), 1900s– hoffil (midlands), 1900s– hoffol (midlands). N.E.D. (1902) also records a form Middle English offawle.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: off adv., fall n.²

Etymology: < off adv. + fall n.² Compare Middle Dutch afval, affal (Dutch afval), German Abfall refuse, waste, parings, shavings, offal.The form offald recorded in N.E.D. (1902) s.v. apparently corresponds to affald adj. in Eng. Dial. Dict. s.v. offal sb.¹, adj., and v.

A. n.

a. In singular or (rarely) plural (in later use chiefly English regional). That which falls or is thrown off from some process, as husks from milling grain, chips from dressing wood, etc.; residue or waste products.Frequently as the first element in compounds, as -corn, -wheat, -leather, -wood, etc.: see B. a.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > refuse or rubbish > [noun] > refuse part of anything > cut, broken, or fallen off > specifically in a process

offala1398

a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 195^v Þe poudre of þe offalle of golde.

a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 243^v Hvlkis and offall and outcast of corne.

Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 362 Offal, that ys bleuit of a thynge, as chyppys, or oþer lyke.

1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Offall of beanes, fabalia.

1581 R. Mulcaster Positions xv. 68 To digest the good nurriture, and to auoide the offall.

a1642 H. Best Farming & Memorandum Bks. (1984) 70 Every hives offell will serve to sweeten 3 gallons of water and to make sufficient and good meade of the same.

1663 B. Gerbier Counsel to Builders 49 To mannage the uffall, of the Timber.

1736 N. Bailey Dict. Domesticum 514 They..distil their rum from the offal of sugar.

1776 A. Smith Inq. Wealth of Nations I. i. xi. 280 The offals of the barn and stables will maintain a certain number of poultry.

1850 Ann. Rep. Commissioner Patents 1849: Arts & Manuf. 303 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (31st Congr., 1st Sess.: House of Representatives Executive Doc. 20, Pt. 1) VI What I claim..is the process of re-grinding the offal of wheat.

1876 J. S. Schultz Leather Manuf. 284 The term offal applies to all the parts outside the bends.

1882 W. Worc. Gloss. Offal, waste wood.

1909 Westm. Gaz. 3 Sept. 2/3 Any miller could tell Mr. Gudgeon that what is not flour in wheat is always offal.

1912 A. E. Tanner Tobacco 107 This refuse tobacco consists of the midribs of the leaves, called ‘stalks’, broken pieces, dust, cigarette waste or ‘smalls’, and damaged tobacco—all classed under the general term of ‘offals’.

1946 A. Nelson Princ. Agric. Bot. viii. 228 Identification of flours, meals, ‘miller's offals’ (bran, wheatings, etc.) from different grains is comparatively easy if characters of the starch, characters of the testa plus pericarp, and so on, are used.

1971 R. G. Noseworthy Dial. Surv. Grand Bank, Newfoundland in Dict. Newfoundland Eng. (at cited word) Offal... Short pieces of sawn wood and ends of boards which are only good for burning.

1989 Sci. Amer. Sept. 96/1 Some manufacturers are already making use of ‘designed offal’, or ‘engineered scrap’, in the manufacture of metals and some plastics.

2001 B. Geddes World Food: Caribbean 99 Both methods serve to remove the thin skin called the offal from the [coffee] bean.

†b. In plural or (occasionally) singular. Fragments that fall off in breaking or using anything, considered collectively; crumbs, leftovers, remnants. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > refuse or rubbish > [noun] > refuse part of anything > cut, broken, or fallen off

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chipping?c1400

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whittling1854

the world > relative properties > wholeness > incompleteness > part of whole > that which is left or remainder > [noun] > remains

reliquiesOE

rest?a1475

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1538 Bp. J. Longland Serm. Good Frydaye sig. B.iv [They] were lefte twelue great basketts, twelue maunds full of the brokeletts & offals at that meale.

1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis ii. 40 If Gods eternal thee last disseuered offal Of Troy determyn too burne.

1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy iii. i. iii. 523 Poore Lazarus..onely seeks chippings, offalls.

1659 D. Pell Πελαγος 295 Upon these Plancks, Yards, Masts, and offals of the Vessel, have all the Mariners got safe to the Shore.

1786 A. Maclean Christ's Comm. (1846) iii. 156 To partake of the crumbs and offals in common with the dogs.

1861 Amer. Agriculturist July 205/2 When they [sc. hens] have abundant range, they gather insects of various kinds; but even then..it is well to give them waste offal from the kitchen, bits of fresh meat, etc.

a. The edible parts collectively which are cut off in preparing the carcass of an animal for food. In early use applied mainly to the entrails; later extended to include the head, tail, and internal organs such as the heart, liver, etc. Also occasionally as a count noun (usually in plural): a piece of offal; a particular type of offal.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > part or joint of animal > [noun] > pluck, offal, or tripe

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numblesc1330

tripea1400

chitterling?c1400

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umbles14..

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hinge1469

draught?a1475

mugget1481

paunch1512

purtenance1530

pertinence1535

chawdron1578

menudes1585

humblesa1592

gut?1602

pluck1611

sheep's-pluck1611

fifth quarter1679

trail1764

fry1847

chitling1869

small goods1874

black tripe1937

variety meat1942

a1425 (a1399) Forme of Cury (BL Add.) 61 in C. B. Hieatt & S. Butler Curye on Inglysch (1985) 111 Take the offall of capouns oþer of oþere briddes; make hem clene and perboile hem.

a1475 Liber Cocorum (Sloane) (1862) 29 (MED) Take þo offal and þo lyver of þo swan, In gode brothe þou sethe hom þan.

1555 W. Waterman tr. J. Boemus Fardle of Facions ii. vii. 156 Some..when thei haue slaine the beaste (in sacrifice), vse to laye parte of the offalle in the fire.

1595 Enq. Tripe-wife (1881) 149 The Butchers offals were thy sweetest ware.

1660 R. Sharrock Hist. Propagation & Improvem. Veg. 92 Sheep-trotters, and other offal.

a1718 W. Penn Maxims in Wks. (1726) I. 825 [The covetous man] lives of the Offal.

1838 H. Colman 1st Rep. Agric. Mass. (Mass. Agric. Surv.) 73 They agree to pay 32 cents. for the offal of every beef animal there slaughtered.

1883 Cent. Mag. Jan. 441/1 He has been reduced to the dregs of life; had lived in a cellar on offals.

1889 J. S. Farmer Americanisms 397 Whereas in England no one would think of speaking of calf's heart, pig's fry, sheep's kidneys, etc., as dishes of offal, in the States such phraseology is not at all unusual.

1965 F. Gerrard Macgregor's Struct. Meat Animals (ed. 2) vii. 144 ‘Edible Offals’ consist of the rumen and reticulum and, sometimes, the abomasum, all of which have thick walls of nutritious white muscle.

1987 N. Blei Neighbourhood xxviii. 188 Tripe we always got... Offal, they call it. Very healthy stuff.

2001 Evening Standard 21 Sept. (ES Mag.) 20/3 Now that everyone knows that hardcore exotic meat and offal is a style statement, the search is on to find new ways to prepare it.

b. The parts of a slaughtered or dead animal considered unfit for human consumption; decomposing flesh, carrion. Also (in extended use): slain bodies or mutilated limbs. Occasionally in plural.Sometimes used contemptuously.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > the body > dead body > [noun]

lichc893

dust?a1000

holdc1000

bonesOE

stiff onea1200

bodyc1225

carrion?c1225

licham?c1225

worms' food or ware?c1225

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ashc1275

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carcass1340

murraina1382

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ghostc1400

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corpusc1440

scadc1440

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martc1480

cadaverc1500

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offal1581

trunk1594

cadaverie1600

relicts1607

remains1610

mummya1616

relic1636

cold meat1788

mortality1827

death bone1834

deader1853

stiff1859

the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > part or joint of animal > [noun] > parts not eaten or unfit for eating

offal1581

spoils1695

1581 J. Derricke Image Irelande ii. sig. Fj Though durtie tripes and offalls like please vnderknaues enoufe.

1602 W. Shakespeare Merry Wives of Windsor iii. v. 5 Haue I liued to be carried in a basket..like a barow of Butchers offoll.

1603 W. Shakespeare Hamlet ii. ii. 582 I should a fatted all the region kites With this slaues offell.

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost x. 633 Till cramm'd and gorg'd, nigh burst With suckt and glutted offal .

1735 W. Somervile Chace iii. 223 Dripping Offals, and the mangled Limbs Of Men and Beasts.

1828 W. Scott Fair Maid of Perth iii, in Chron. Canongate 2nd Ser. II. 87 Where is the hand..is it nailed on the public pillory, or flung as offal to the houseless dogs..?

1838 W. H. Prescott Hist. Reign Ferdinand & Isabella I. i. iv. 133 Supporting life by feeding on the most loathsome offal, on cats, dogs, etc.

1867 S. W. Baker Nile Tributaries (1872) iv. 61 A flock of ravenous beaks were tearing at the offal.

1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 231/2 The old stories about recovered grease from all sorts of offal [being used in the manufacture of margarine] are quite without foundation.

1975 J. Clavell Shōgun i. ii. 41 They emptied the contents, rotting fish offal and seawater, onto the heads of the prisoners.

1990 Daily Tel. 14 Jan. 7/3 Farmers were urged..to stop feeding pigs and poultry with rations containing a range of cattle offals during the ‘mad cow’ disease scare.

c. Refuse in general; rubbish, garbage; a piece of this.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > refuse or rubbish > [noun]

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rascal1440

murgeonc1450

wrack1472

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garblec1503

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garbage1549

peltry1550

gubbins?1553

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retraict1575

ross1577

riddings1584

ket1586

scouring1588

pelf1589

offal1598

rummage1598

dog's meat1606

retriment1615

spitling1620

recrement1622

mundungus1637

sordes1640

muskings1649

rejectament1654

offscouring1655

brat1656

relicts1687

offage1727

litter1730

rejectamenta1795

outwale1825

detritus1834

junk1836

wastements1843

croke1847–78

sculch1847

debris1851

rumble1854

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littering1897

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wastage1898

dreck1905

bruck1929

crap1934

garbo1953

clobber1965

dooky1965

grot1971

tippings-

1598 R. Barret Theorike & Pract. Mod. Warres v. 137 Great pits to bury and to cast therein, the garbedge, filthinese, and offalls of the campe.

1798 Anti-Jacobin 8 Jan. 66/1 Express orders were given to afford them no other subsistence than the offals that might be collected in the streets.

1877 S. Cox Salvator Mundi (1878) iv. 69 It became the common cesspool of the city into which all the offal was cast.

1987 J. Hersey Fling in Fling (1990) 51 I don't believe in strewing the wild places with our offal.

1993 C. Harrod-Eagles Dynasty (BNC) 209 One of those filthy tenements..so meanly built that a man standing amongst the offal and rubbish in the middle of the street could have touched the houses to either side by stretching out his hands.

3. figurative. Dregs, scum, offscourings, trash; (as a count noun) something worthless.

ΘΚΠ

society > society and the community > social class > the common people > low rank or condition > the lowest class > [noun] > persons of the lowest class (collectively)

chenaille1340

offal?a1425

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cattle1579

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baggage1603

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mob1693

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sweeping1799

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scruff1836

residuum1851

talent1882

?a1425 tr. Catherine of Siena Orcherd of Syon (Harl.) (1966) 170 (MED) We ben blasphemyd, and we biseche and preye, for we ben maad as orfayle of al þis world, þe which is icast out þerof.

1580 R. Hakluyt Let. in Writings & Corr. (1935) 149 We may plant on that waive the offals of our people, as the Portingalles do in Brasill.

1581 R. Mulcaster Positions xxxvii. 159 That barbarous offall of all kinde of people.

1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene ii. iii. sig. O7^v The Miser threw him selfe, as an Offall, Streight at his foot in base humilitee.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Julius Caesar (1623) i. iii. 108 What trash is Rome? What Rubbish, and what Offall ?

1728 J. Morgan Compl. Hist. Algiers I. Pref. p. ii For the Sake of those Varlets; who, generally, are but the very Offal of the Ottomans.

1828 T. B. Macaulay Hallam's Constit. Hist. in Edinb. Rev. Sept. 152 Wretches..whom every body now believes to have been..the offal of gaols and brothels.

1904 R. Kipling Traffics & Discov. 113 ‘You're a disgrace to the Service, and your boat's offal.’ ‘Awful?’ I said. ‘No—offal—tripes—swipes—ullage.’

1946 Liberty 1 June 58/1 It would be if I didn't have to write all the offal for the papers.

1975 J. Clavell Shōgun i. ii. 34 I'm here to talk to the daimyo, not you. Translate what I said, you motherless offal!

†4. Formerly in the fish trade: low-priced and inferior fish (contrasted with those called prime); esp. small fish of various kinds caught in the nets along with the larger or more valuable kinds. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > seafood > [noun] > fish > unsound or inferior fish

thoke1482

rough fish1816

garbage fish1841

offal1859

shack1904

junk fish1930

1859 G. A. Sala Twice round Clock (1861) 17 ‘Offal’ means odd lots of different kinds of fish, mostly small and broken, but always fresh and wholesome.

1859 G. A. Sala Twice round Clock (1861) 18 Offal [fish] is bought only by the ‘fryers’.

1887 E. J. Mather Nor'ard of Dogger (1889) ii. 19 Prime and offal were rigorously kept apart. The prime fish are soles, turbot, halibut and brill. Plaice, haddock, cod, ling, etc. come under the technical name of offal.

B. adj.

a. literal. Of or relating to offal (in preceding senses); consisting of offal; that is offal.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > worthlessness > [adjective]

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goodlesseOE

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neat1824

scamping1832

good-for-naught1835

no good1838

scampish1847

ne'er-do-wellish1890

no good1904

upter1919

never-do-well1933

the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > refuse or rubbish > [adjective] > refuse from any process

offal1588

1588 in M. A. Havinden Househ. & Farm Inventories Oxfordshire (1965) 269 Offole lether 4 0.

1596 Stanford Churchwardens' Accts. in Antiquary (1888) May 211 Chippes and offall woodd of the tree felled.

1598 J. Marston Scourge of Villanie iii. x. sig. H5^v Fedde with offall scrapes, that sometimes fal From liberall wits.

a1644 F. Quarles Solomons Recantation (1645) Sol. xi. 57 Fair Crops from offall Corn are rarely found.

1717 tr. A. F. Frézier Voy. South-Sea 238 Offal Meat, which consists in Heads, Tongues, Entrails, Feet,..which they eat on Fish-Days.

1764 Museum Rusticum (1765) 3 xii. 40 I supposed..that they would go to the tailing, or off-fall corn.

1776 W. Marshall Minutes Agric. 17 Nov. (1778) Any offal-stick..eighteen inches long answers the purpose.

1825 E. Hewlett Cottage Comforts vi. 49 Any offal milk.

1880 Times 2 Dec. 8/2 For sale by auction, at Her Majesty's Dockyard,..offal wood..about 30 tons.

1886 R. Holland Gloss. Words County of Chester (at cited word) Offal corn, offal wheat, the lighter grains winnowed from the marketable samples, and used for feeding fowls.

1891 J. J. Lalor in Cycl. Temp. & Prohib. 253/2 Patent, sole, harness, band and offal leather.

1927 Dict. Occup. Terms §338 ‘Offal leather,’ i.e. low grade parts of hide.

1995 Holiday Which? Sept. 177/3 Callos a la Madrileña—an offal stew with chorizo, amazingly filling and tasty.

b. figurative. Rejected, waste; vile or worthless; outcast. In later use regional.

ΘΚΠ

society > morality > moral evil > evil nature or character > lack of magnanimity or noble-mindedness > [adjective] > worthless

forcouthc888

worthless1576

hilding1577

baggage1580

lorel1590

losel1601

ragamuffin1602

loselled1606

loselly1611

offala1626

ragamuffa1626

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good-for-nought1663

good-for-nothing1706

ne'er-do-well1773

ragabash1818

neat1824

scamping1832

scampish1847

wutless1853

trashy1862

ne'er-do-wellish1890

suck-egg1892

never-do-well1933

punk-ass1971

a1626 W. Rowley Birth of Merlin (1662) sig. E4 The offal fugitives of barren Germany.

1701 D. Defoe True-born Englishman i. 15 We have been Europe's Sink, the Jakes where she Voids all her Offal Out-cast Progeny.

1839 Times 5 Feb. The last four years being the period of the M—— or offal ministry in this island.

1860 ‘G. Eliot’ Mill on Floss I. i. iv. 49 He's a offal creatur as iver come about the primises.

1877 F. Ross et al. Gloss. Words Holderness Offal, worthless; vile.

1895 T. Pinnock Black Country Ann. in Eng. Dial. Dict. (1903) IV. 332/1 I consider him a offal sort o' chap, I ca' see what her con see in him.

1903 Eng. Dial. Dict. IV. 332/1 Offal... Inferior, superfluous; dirty, untidy;..worthless, disreputable... An offal fellow.

Compounds

offal-eater, offal-monger.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > eating > eating specific substances or food > [noun] > eating flesh or meat > eaters of other flesh

ophiophagus1555

sheep-biter1599

offal-eater1889

turtledom1893

1889 J. Jacobs Fables of Æsop I. 66 The refuse-eater and the offal-eater Belauding each other.

1919 G. Murray Aristophanes & War Party 36 Demos. You see those rows and rows of people? Offal-monger. Yup.

1996 D. M. Warren in V. U. James Sustainable Devel. Third World Countries 31 As offal eaters, dogs and, especially, swine provide sanitation services.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	offal
释义	offaln.adj. Brit. /ˈɒfl/, U.S. /ˈɔf(ə)l/, /ˈɑf(ə)l/ Forms: Middle English offaile, Middle English offale, Middle English orfayle, Middle English 1700s offel, Middle English–1500s offalle, Middle English–1600s offall, Middle English– offal, 1500s offawle, 1500s offole, 1600s offell, 1600s offoll, 1600s uffal, 1600s uffall, 1600s–1700s off-fall, 1700s of-fall, 1700s offill; English regional 1800s– hoffle (midlands), 1800s– offil, 1800s– offle, 1900s– auffol (East Anglian), 1900s– hoffal (midlands), 1900s– hoffil (midlands), 1900s– hoffol (midlands). N.E.D. (1902) also records a form Middle English offawle. Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: off adv., fall n.² Etymology: < off adv. + fall n.² Compare Middle Dutch afval, affal (Dutch afval), German Abfall refuse, waste, parings, shavings, offal.The form offald recorded in N.E.D. (1902) s.v. apparently corresponds to affald adj. in Eng. Dial. Dict. s.v. offal sb.¹, adj., and v. A. n. 1. a. In singular or (rarely) plural (in later use chiefly English regional). That which falls or is thrown off from some process, as husks from milling grain, chips from dressing wood, etc.; residue or waste products.Frequently as the first element in compounds, as -corn, -wheat, -leather, -wood, etc.: see B. a. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > refuse or rubbish > [noun] > refuse part of anything > cut, broken, or fallen off > specifically in a process offala1398 a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 195^v Þe poudre of þe offalle of golde. a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 243^v Hvlkis and offall and outcast of corne. Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 362 Offal, that ys bleuit of a thynge, as chyppys, or oþer lyke. 1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Offall of beanes, fabalia. 1581 R. Mulcaster Positions xv. 68 To digest the good nurriture, and to auoide the offall. a1642 H. Best Farming & Memorandum Bks. (1984) 70 Every hives offell will serve to sweeten 3 gallons of water and to make sufficient and good meade of the same. 1663 B. Gerbier Counsel to Builders 49 To mannage the uffall, of the Timber. 1736 N. Bailey Dict. Domesticum 514 They..distil their rum from the offal of sugar. 1776 A. Smith Inq. Wealth of Nations I. i. xi. 280 The offals of the barn and stables will maintain a certain number of poultry. View more context for this quotation 1850 Ann. Rep. Commissioner Patents 1849: Arts & Manuf. 303 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (31st Congr., 1st Sess.: House of Representatives Executive Doc. 20, Pt. 1) VI What I claim..is the process of re-grinding the offal of wheat. 1876 J. S. Schultz Leather Manuf. 284 The term offal applies to all the parts outside the bends. 1882 W. Worc. Gloss. Offal, waste wood. 1909 Westm. Gaz. 3 Sept. 2/3 Any miller could tell Mr. Gudgeon that what is not flour in wheat is always offal. 1912 A. E. Tanner Tobacco 107 This refuse tobacco consists of the midribs of the leaves, called ‘stalks’, broken pieces, dust, cigarette waste or ‘smalls’, and damaged tobacco—all classed under the general term of ‘offals’. 1946 A. Nelson Princ. Agric. Bot. viii. 228 Identification of flours, meals, ‘miller's offals’ (bran, wheatings, etc.) from different grains is comparatively easy if characters of the starch, characters of the testa plus pericarp, and so on, are used. 1971 R. G. Noseworthy Dial. Surv. Grand Bank, Newfoundland in Dict. Newfoundland Eng. (at cited word) Offal... Short pieces of sawn wood and ends of boards which are only good for burning. 1989 Sci. Amer. Sept. 96/1 Some manufacturers are already making use of ‘designed offal’, or ‘engineered scrap’, in the manufacture of metals and some plastics. 2001 B. Geddes World Food: Caribbean 99 Both methods serve to remove the thin skin called the offal from the [coffee] bean. †b. In plural or (occasionally) singular. Fragments that fall off in breaking or using anything, considered collectively; crumbs, leftovers, remnants. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > refuse or rubbish > [noun] > refuse part of anything > cut, broken, or fallen off paring1314 chipping?c1400 parurec1400 pare?a1425 offals1538 off-shaving1565 clipping1579 peeling1598 pinching1688 whittling1854 the world > relative properties > wholeness > incompleteness > part of whole > that which is left or remainder > [noun] > remains reliquiesOE rest?a1475 offals1538 reliquiae1582 relicts1598 afterlings1613 stoundings1650 extantsa1658 1538 Bp. J. Longland Serm. Good Frydaye sig. B.iv [They] were lefte twelue great basketts, twelue maunds full of the brokeletts & offals at that meale. 1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis ii. 40 If Gods eternal thee last disseuered offal Of Troy determyn too burne. 1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy iii. i. iii. 523 Poore Lazarus..onely seeks chippings, offalls. 1659 D. Pell Πελαγος 295 Upon these Plancks, Yards, Masts, and offals of the Vessel, have all the Mariners got safe to the Shore. 1786 A. Maclean Christ's Comm. (1846) iii. 156 To partake of the crumbs and offals in common with the dogs. 1861 Amer. Agriculturist July 205/2 When they [sc. hens] have abundant range, they gather insects of various kinds; but even then..it is well to give them waste offal from the kitchen, bits of fresh meat, etc. 2. a. The edible parts collectively which are cut off in preparing the carcass of an animal for food. In early use applied mainly to the entrails; later extended to include the head, tail, and internal organs such as the heart, liver, etc. Also occasionally as a count noun (usually in plural): a piece of offal; a particular type of offal. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > part or joint of animal > [noun] > pluck, offal, or tripe tripea1300 numblesc1330 tripea1400 chitterling?c1400 giblet14.. hasletc1400 umbles14.. womb cloutc1400 garbage1422 offala1425 interlardc1440 hinge1469 draught?a1475 mugget1481 paunch1512 purtenance1530 pertinence1535 chawdron1578 menudes1585 humblesa1592 gut?1602 pluck1611 sheep's-pluck1611 fifth quarter1679 trail1764 fry1847 chitling1869 small goods1874 black tripe1937 variety meat1942 a1425 (a1399) Forme of Cury (BL Add.) 61 in C. B. Hieatt & S. Butler Curye on Inglysch (1985) 111 Take the offall of capouns oþer of oþere briddes; make hem clene and perboile hem. a1475 Liber Cocorum (Sloane) (1862) 29 (MED) Take þo offal and þo lyver of þo swan, In gode brothe þou sethe hom þan. 1555 W. Waterman tr. J. Boemus Fardle of Facions ii. vii. 156 Some..when thei haue slaine the beaste (in sacrifice), vse to laye parte of the offalle in the fire. 1595 Enq. Tripe-wife (1881) 149 The Butchers offals were thy sweetest ware. 1660 R. Sharrock Hist. Propagation & Improvem. Veg. 92 Sheep-trotters, and other offal. a1718 W. Penn Maxims in Wks. (1726) I. 825 [The covetous man] lives of the Offal. 1838 H. Colman 1st Rep. Agric. Mass. (Mass. Agric. Surv.) 73 They agree to pay 32 cents. for the offal of every beef animal there slaughtered. 1883 Cent. Mag. Jan. 441/1 He has been reduced to the dregs of life; had lived in a cellar on offals. 1889 J. S. Farmer Americanisms 397 Whereas in England no one would think of speaking of calf's heart, pig's fry, sheep's kidneys, etc., as dishes of offal, in the States such phraseology is not at all unusual. 1965 F. Gerrard Macgregor's Struct. Meat Animals (ed. 2) vii. 144 ‘Edible Offals’ consist of the rumen and reticulum and, sometimes, the abomasum, all of which have thick walls of nutritious white muscle. 1987 N. Blei Neighbourhood xxviii. 188 Tripe we always got... Offal, they call it. Very healthy stuff. 2001 Evening Standard 21 Sept. (ES Mag.) 20/3 Now that everyone knows that hardcore exotic meat and offal is a style statement, the search is on to find new ways to prepare it. b. The parts of a slaughtered or dead animal considered unfit for human consumption; decomposing flesh, carrion. Also (in extended use): slain bodies or mutilated limbs. Occasionally in plural.Sometimes used contemptuously. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > dead body > [noun] lichc893 dust?a1000 holdc1000 bonesOE stiff onea1200 bodyc1225 carrion?c1225 licham?c1225 worms' food or ware?c1225 corsec1250 ashc1275 corpsec1315 carcass1340 murraina1382 relicsa1398 ghostc1400 wormes warec1400 corpusc1440 scadc1440 reliefc1449 martc1480 cadaverc1500 mortc1500 tramort?a1513 hearse1530 bulk1575 offal1581 trunk1594 cadaverie1600 relicts1607 remains1610 mummya1616 relic1636 cold meat1788 mortality1827 death bone1834 deader1853 stiff1859 the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > part or joint of animal > [noun] > parts not eaten or unfit for eating offal1581 spoils1695 1581 J. Derricke Image Irelande ii. sig. Fj Though durtie tripes and offalls like please vnderknaues enoufe. 1602 W. Shakespeare Merry Wives of Windsor iii. v. 5 Haue I liued to be carried in a basket..like a barow of Butchers offoll. 1603 W. Shakespeare Hamlet ii. ii. 582 I should a fatted all the region kites With this slaues offell. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost x. 633 Till cramm'd and gorg'd, nigh burst With suckt and glutted offal . View more context for this quotation 1735 W. Somervile Chace iii. 223 Dripping Offals, and the mangled Limbs Of Men and Beasts. 1828 W. Scott Fair Maid of Perth iii, in Chron. Canongate 2nd Ser. II. 87 Where is the hand..is it nailed on the public pillory, or flung as offal to the houseless dogs..? 1838 W. H. Prescott Hist. Reign Ferdinand & Isabella I. i. iv. 133 Supporting life by feeding on the most loathsome offal, on cats, dogs, etc. 1867 S. W. Baker Nile Tributaries (1872) iv. 61 A flock of ravenous beaks were tearing at the offal. 1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 231/2 The old stories about recovered grease from all sorts of offal [being used in the manufacture of margarine] are quite without foundation. 1975 J. Clavell Shōgun i. ii. 41 They emptied the contents, rotting fish offal and seawater, onto the heads of the prisoners. 1990 Daily Tel. 14 Jan. 7/3 Farmers were urged..to stop feeding pigs and poultry with rations containing a range of cattle offals during the ‘mad cow’ disease scare. c. Refuse in general; rubbish, garbage; a piece of this. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > refuse or rubbish > [noun] wrakea1350 outcastingc1350 rammel1370 rubble1376 mullockc1390 refusec1390 filtha1398 outcasta1398 chaff?a1400 rubbishc1400 wastec1430 drossc1440 raff?1440 rascal1440 murgeonc1450 wrack1472 gear1489 garblec1503 scowl1538 raffle1543 baggage1549 garbage1549 peltry1550 gubbins?1553 lastage1553 scruff1559 retraict1575 ross1577 riddings1584 ket1586 scouring1588 pelf1589 offal1598 rummage1598 dog's meat1606 retriment1615 spitling1620 recrement1622 mundungus1637 sordes1640 muskings1649 rejectament1654 offscouring1655 brat1656 relicts1687 offage1727 litter1730 rejectamenta1795 outwale1825 detritus1834 junk1836 wastements1843 croke1847–78 sculch1847 debris1851 rumble1854 flotsam1861 jetsam1861 pelt1880 offcasting1893 rubbishry1894 littering1897 muckings1898 wastage1898 dreck1905 bruck1929 crap1934 garbo1953 clobber1965 dooky1965 grot1971 tippings- 1598 R. Barret Theorike & Pract. Mod. Warres v. 137 Great pits to bury and to cast therein, the garbedge, filthinese, and offalls of the campe. 1798 Anti-Jacobin 8 Jan. 66/1 Express orders were given to afford them no other subsistence than the offals that might be collected in the streets. 1877 S. Cox Salvator Mundi (1878) iv. 69 It became the common cesspool of the city into which all the offal was cast. 1987 J. Hersey Fling in Fling (1990) 51 I don't believe in strewing the wild places with our offal. 1993 C. Harrod-Eagles Dynasty (BNC) 209 One of those filthy tenements..so meanly built that a man standing amongst the offal and rubbish in the middle of the street could have touched the houses to either side by stretching out his hands. 3. figurative. Dregs, scum, offscourings, trash; (as a count noun) something worthless. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social class > the common people > low rank or condition > the lowest class > [noun] > persons of the lowest class (collectively) chenaille1340 offal?a1425 putaylea1425 ribaldail1489 abject1526 offscouring1526 dreg1531 outsweeping1535 braggery1548 ribaldry1550 raff1557 sink1574 cattle1579 offscum1579 rabble1579 baggagery1589 scum1590 waste1592 menialty1593 baggage1603 froth1603 refuse1603 tag-rag1609 retriment1615 trasha1616 recrement1622 silts1636 garbage1648 riffle-raffle1668 raffle1670 riff-raff1678 scurf1688 mob1693 scouring1721 ribble-rabble1771 sweeping1799 clamjamphrie1816 ragabash1823 scruff1836 residuum1851 talent1882 ?a1425 tr. Catherine of Siena Orcherd of Syon (Harl.) (1966) 170 (MED) We ben blasphemyd, and we biseche and preye, for we ben maad as orfayle of al þis world, þe which is icast out þerof. 1580 R. Hakluyt Let. in Writings & Corr. (1935) 149 We may plant on that waive the offals of our people, as the Portingalles do in Brasill. 1581 R. Mulcaster Positions xxxvii. 159 That barbarous offall of all kinde of people. 1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene ii. iii. sig. O7^v The Miser threw him selfe, as an Offall, Streight at his foot in base humilitee. a1616 W. Shakespeare Julius Caesar (1623) i. iii. 108 What trash is Rome? What Rubbish, and what Offall ? View more context for this quotation 1728 J. Morgan Compl. Hist. Algiers I. Pref. p. ii For the Sake of those Varlets; who, generally, are but the very Offal of the Ottomans. 1828 T. B. Macaulay Hallam's Constit. Hist. in Edinb. Rev. Sept. 152 Wretches..whom every body now believes to have been..the offal of gaols and brothels. 1904 R. Kipling Traffics & Discov. 113 ‘You're a disgrace to the Service, and your boat's offal.’ ‘Awful?’ I said. ‘No—offal—tripes—swipes—ullage.’ 1946 Liberty 1 June 58/1 It would be if I didn't have to write all the offal for the papers. 1975 J. Clavell Shōgun i. ii. 34 I'm here to talk to the daimyo, not you. Translate what I said, you motherless offal! †4. Formerly in the fish trade: low-priced and inferior fish (contrasted with those called prime); esp. small fish of various kinds caught in the nets along with the larger or more valuable kinds. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > seafood > [noun] > fish > unsound or inferior fish thoke1482 rough fish1816 garbage fish1841 offal1859 shack1904 junk fish1930 1859 G. A. Sala Twice round Clock (1861) 17 ‘Offal’ means odd lots of different kinds of fish, mostly small and broken, but always fresh and wholesome. 1859 G. A. Sala Twice round Clock (1861) 18 Offal [fish] is bought only by the ‘fryers’. 1887 E. J. Mather Nor'ard of Dogger (1889) ii. 19 Prime and offal were rigorously kept apart. The prime fish are soles, turbot, halibut and brill. Plaice, haddock, cod, ling, etc. come under the technical name of offal. B. adj. a. literal. Of or relating to offal (in preceding senses); consisting of offal; that is offal. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > worthlessness > [adjective] forcouthc888 goodlesseOE undoughtya1225 voidc1380 bare1399 stark naught1528 worthilessa1542 queer1567 worthless1573 hilding1577 baggage1580 arrant1581 offal1588 lorel1590 losel1601 ragamuffin1602 loselled1606 loselly1611 valuelessa1616 ragamuffa1626 good-for-nothing1706 ne'er-do-well1773 rotten1813 neat1824 scamping1832 good-for-naught1835 no good1838 scampish1847 ne'er-do-wellish1890 no good1904 upter1919 never-do-well1933 the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > refuse or rubbish > [adjective] > refuse from any process offal1588 1588 in M. A. Havinden Househ. & Farm Inventories Oxfordshire (1965) 269 Offole lether 4 0. 1596 Stanford Churchwardens' Accts. in Antiquary (1888) May 211 Chippes and offall woodd of the tree felled. 1598 J. Marston Scourge of Villanie iii. x. sig. H5^v Fedde with offall scrapes, that sometimes fal From liberall wits. a1644 F. Quarles Solomons Recantation (1645) Sol. xi. 57 Fair Crops from offall Corn are rarely found. 1717 tr. A. F. Frézier Voy. South-Sea 238 Offal Meat, which consists in Heads, Tongues, Entrails, Feet,..which they eat on Fish-Days. 1764 Museum Rusticum (1765) 3 xii. 40 I supposed..that they would go to the tailing, or off-fall corn. 1776 W. Marshall Minutes Agric. 17 Nov. (1778) Any offal-stick..eighteen inches long answers the purpose. 1825 E. Hewlett Cottage Comforts vi. 49 Any offal milk. 1880 Times 2 Dec. 8/2 For sale by auction, at Her Majesty's Dockyard,..offal wood..about 30 tons. 1886 R. Holland Gloss. Words County of Chester (at cited word) Offal corn, offal wheat, the lighter grains winnowed from the marketable samples, and used for feeding fowls. 1891 J. J. Lalor in Cycl. Temp. & Prohib. 253/2 Patent, sole, harness, band and offal leather. 1927 Dict. Occup. Terms §338 ‘Offal leather,’ i.e. low grade parts of hide. 1995 Holiday Which? Sept. 177/3 Callos a la Madrileña—an offal stew with chorizo, amazingly filling and tasty. b. figurative. Rejected, waste; vile or worthless; outcast. In later use regional. ΘΚΠ society > morality > moral evil > evil nature or character > lack of magnanimity or noble-mindedness > [adjective] > worthless forcouthc888 worthless1576 hilding1577 baggage1580 lorel1590 losel1601 ragamuffin1602 loselled1606 loselly1611 offala1626 ragamuffa1626 vagabond1630 good-for-nought1663 good-for-nothing1706 ne'er-do-well1773 ragabash1818 neat1824 scamping1832 scampish1847 wutless1853 trashy1862 ne'er-do-wellish1890 suck-egg1892 never-do-well1933 punk-ass1971 a1626 W. Rowley Birth of Merlin (1662) sig. E4 The offal fugitives of barren Germany. 1701 D. Defoe True-born Englishman i. 15 We have been Europe's Sink, the Jakes where she Voids all her Offal Out-cast Progeny. 1839 Times 5 Feb. The last four years being the period of the M—— or offal ministry in this island. 1860 ‘G. Eliot’ Mill on Floss I. i. iv. 49 He's a offal creatur as iver come about the primises. 1877 F. Ross et al. Gloss. Words Holderness Offal, worthless; vile. 1895 T. Pinnock Black Country Ann. in Eng. Dial. Dict. (1903) IV. 332/1 I consider him a offal sort o' chap, I ca' see what her con see in him. 1903 Eng. Dial. Dict. IV. 332/1 Offal... Inferior, superfluous; dirty, untidy;..worthless, disreputable... An offal fellow. Compounds offal-eater, offal-monger. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > eating > eating specific substances or food > [noun] > eating flesh or meat > eaters of other flesh ophiophagus1555 sheep-biter1599 offal-eater1889 turtledom1893 1889 J. Jacobs Fables of Æsop I. 66 The refuse-eater and the offal-eater Belauding each other. 1919 G. Murray Aristophanes & War Party 36 Demos. You see those rows and rows of people? Offal-monger. Yup. 1996 D. M. Warren in V. U. James Sustainable Devel. Third World Countries 31 As offal eaters, dogs and, especially, swine provide sanitation services. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.a1398
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