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Offal vs Leavings - What's the difference?

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Offal is a synonym of leavings.


As nouns the difference between offal and leavings

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

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

    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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