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   offal

   /ˈɒfl/

   noun

   • 1. the entrails and internal organs of an animal used as food: "eating pieces of braised offal turned his stomach"
   • ▪ waste material: "the packing plant dumped its offal into the stream"
   • ▪ decomposing animal flesh: "gulls pecking at piles of offal from the narwhal hunt"

   Word Origin late Middle English (in the sense ‘refuse from a process’): probably suggested by Middle Dutch afval, from af ‘off’ + vallen ‘to fall’.

   Scrabble Points: 11

   • O

     1

   • F

     4

   • F

     4

   • A

     1

   • L

     1

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