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offal

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5 lettersPronunciation /ˈɒfəl/Part of speech nounSorted affloStarts with OEnds with L0 cluesCommon crossword word
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  1. viscera and trimmings of a butchered animal often considered inedible by humans

Word origin

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”).

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