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Innards vs Leavings - What's the difference?

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Innards is a related term of leavings.


As nouns the difference between innards and leavings

is that innards is while leavings is a worthless and incidental residuum, as scraps from a meal or shavings or sawdust from wood.

innards

English

Noun

(head) (p)
  • The internal organs]] of a human or animal; especially viscera, [[intestine, intestines.
  • The inner workings of something; the insides or guts.
    • He took the cover off his computer and looked at the innards .

    Usage notes

    * This word is most frequently used in the plural/collective sense, as above. English pluralia tantum

    leavings

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • A worthless and incidental residuum, as scraps from a meal or shavings or sawdust from wood.
  • :The leavings were thrown to the dogs.
  • A worthless surfeit of material, as leftovers from a meal or scrap lumber.
  • :The poor survive on the leavings of the rich and wasteful.

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