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entrails

[ en-treylz, -truhlz ]

plural noun

  1. the internal parts of the trunk of an animal body.
  2. the intestines.
  3. the internal parts of anything:

    the entrails of a machine.



entrails

/ ˈɛ²Ô³Ù°ù±ðɪ±ô³ú /

plural noun

  1. the internal organs of a person or animal; intestines; guts
  2. the innermost parts of anything
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of entrails1

1250–1300; Middle English entrailles < Anglo-French, Middle French < Vulgar Latin *¾±²Ô³Ù±ð°ùÄå±ô¾±²¹ (compare early Medieval Latin ¾±²Ô³Ù°ùÄå±ô¾±²¹ ), alteration, by suffix change ( -al 1 ), of Latin ¾±²Ô³Ù±ð°ùÄå²Ô±ð²¹ guts, neuter plural of ¾±²Ô³Ù±ð°ùÄå²Ô±ð³Ü²õ; see inter-, -an, -eous
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of entrails1

C13: from Old French entrailles, from Medieval Latin ¾±²Ô³Ù°ùÄå±ô¾±²¹, changed from Latin ¾±²Ô³Ù±ð°ùÄå²Ô±ð²¹ intestines, ultimately from inter between
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The word lends a technical remove to a grisly concept unless you love food and haven’t seen the gore and entrails served up rare and glistening throughout the previous episode.

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We hear cracking bones, see a pile of entrails, watch Sue suture Elisabeth’s back, and get an uncomfortable close-up of Harvey frenetically masticating beady-eyed shrimp.

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Old ones, too: When Napoleon’s pony gets hit by a cannonball head-on, the exploding entrails suggest an “Alien†chestburster homage.

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At Site Zero, the roar of the machines is deafening as conveyor belts carry 40 tons per hour of mixed plastic waste through the entrails of the factory.

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The entrails of a nearby building were on show.

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