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Offal vs Carrion - What's the difference?

offal | carrion | Synonyms |

As nouns the difference between offal and carrion

is that offal is the rejected or waste parts of a butchered animal while carrion is dead flesh; carcasses.

offal

English

Noun

(-)
  • The rejected or waste parts of a butchered animal.
  • The internal organs of an animal other than a bird, these organs being used as food.
  • A dead body.
  • Carrion.
  • That which is thrown away as worthless or unfit for use; refuse; rubbish.

    • Derived terms

    * offalist

    See also

    * giblets

    carrion

    English

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • Dead flesh; carcasses.
    • Vultures feed on carrion .
  • * Spenser
    • They did eat the dead carrions .
  • * 1922, , Vintage Classics, paperback edition, page 119
    • Perhaps the Purple Emperor is feasting, as Morris says, upon a mass of putrid carrion at the base of an oak tree.
  • (obsolete, derogatory) A contemptible or worthless person.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Old feeble carrions .

    Related terms

    * carrion beetle * carrion crow