offal

/ˈɒfəl/

Etymology

From Middle English offal, offall, offalle (“offal, refuse, scrap waste”), equivalent to off- + fall. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Oufal (“offal”), West Frisian ôffal (“offal”), Dutch afval (“waste, refuse”), German Low German Offall (“offal”), German Abfall (“waste, refuse”), Danish affald (“waste, refuse”), Swedish avfall (“waste, refuse”), Old English offeallan (“to cut off”).

offal means the internal organs of an animal (entrails or innards), used as food. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 85 out of 100.

offal is pronounced /ˈɒfəl/.

Why “offal” is a great word

OFFAL — [Noun] The entrails and internal organs of a butchered animal, especially when used as food. From Middle English offal, offalle, from the phrase off fall, literally meaning "that which falls off (the butcher's block)." Unlike "awful," which conjures a moral or aesthetic dread, or "carrion," which signifies the corrupting flesh of the already dead, offal is the immediate, usable harvest from the slaughter. It is the glistening heap of liver on the cold slab, the pungent steam from a simmering tripe pot, the humble pie filled with the parts a more delicate appetite would refuse—a testament that nourishment often resides in what the world discards.

noun

The internal organs of an animal (entrails or innards), used as food.
A by-product of the grain milling process, which may include bran, husks, etc.“1817, John Taylor, Arator; Being a Series of Agricultural Essays Practical and Political in Sixty-One Numbers, Baltimore: John M. Carter, No. 32, Indian Corn, p. 96, https://books.google.ca/books?id=paMBAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false The whole of the corn offal is better food than wheat straw, but its blades and tops are so greatly superiour, that cattle prefer them to hay, and w”
A dead body; carrion.
That which is thrown away as worthless or unfit for use; refuse; rubbish.