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entrails

noun

  1. the internal organs, especially the intestines; viscera
  2. internal parts; the inner workings of something
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Pronunciation: /ˈɛn.tɹeɪlz/ / /ˈɛn.tɹəlz/

noun

Etymology: From Middle English entraille, entrailles, from Old French entrailles, from Vulgar Latin intrālia, from Latin interānea, from interāneus, from inter. Compare Spanish entraña.

  1. plural of entrail

    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.

  2. plural of entrail