entrails means plural of entrail; The internal organs of an animal, especially the intestines. Lexicurio rates it Distinctive — a strength score of 69 out of 100.
Why this word is great
ENTRAILS — [Noun] The internal organs of a person or animal, especially the intestines; viscera. From Middle English entraille, from Old French entrailles, from Vulgar Latin intrālia, from Latin interānea ("internal parts"), from interāneus ("internal"), from inter ("within, between"). Unlike "viscera," a term of clinical detachment, or "offal," which frames the organic as mere waste or culinary byproduct, "entrails" carries the archaic weight of augury and raw exposure. It is the steaming, purple coil spilling onto a butcher's marble; the glistening mass examined for omens under a bronze sky; the intimate, terrible tangle meant to stay hidden. The word confesses that beneath the skin's smooth lie lies a soft and tangled mortality.
noun
- plural of entrail; The internal organs of an animal, especially the intestines.“Elizabethan audiences relished shocks and surprises as much as they did trumpets, thunder and savage realism in bloody scenes of torture and death which were made all the more horrible by the use of animals’ entrails.”
- plural of entrail; The seat of the emotions.