entrails
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English
Etymology
From Middle English entraille, entrailles, from Old French entrailles, from Vulgar Latin intrālia, from Latin interānea, from interāneus, from inter. Compare Spanish entraña.
Pronunciation
Noun
entrails
Noun
entrails pl (plural only)
- The internal organs of an animal, especially the intestines.
- 1987, Christopher Hibbert, The English: A Social History, 1066-1945, →ISBN, page 244:
- Elizabethan audiences relished shocks and surprises as much as they did trumpets, thunder and savage realism in bloody scenes of torture and death which were made all the more horrible by the use of animals’ entrails.
- (obsolete) The seat of the emotions.
Translations
internal organs
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References
- James A. H. Murray [et al.], editors (1884–1928), “Entrails”, in A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), volumes III (D–E), London: Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 221, column 2.