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Offal vs Dregs - What's the difference?

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Offal is a synonym of dregs.


As nouns the difference between offal and dregs

is that offal is trash while dregs is (collectively ) the sediment settled at the bottom of a liquid; the lees in a container of unfiltered wine.

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

    dregs

    English

    Noun

    (en-plural noun)
  • (collectively ) The sediment settled at the bottom of a liquid; the lees in a container of unfiltered wine.
  • (figuratively, the dregs) The worst and lowest part of something.
    • the dregs of society

    Usage notes

    * The singular form dreg is far less common, but the phrase to the last dreg still has currency.

    Synonyms

    * debris, deposit, draff, dross, exuviate, feculence, grounds, grouts, lees, orts, rabble, refuse, residue, residuum, riffraff, rubbish, scum, sediment, settling, trash, loser, outcast