offaly

O1F4F4A1L1Y4

proper noun

A county of Ireland.

Less commonScrabble 15

Meanings

offaly1

adjectiveoffaly (comparative more offaly or offalier, superlative most offaly or offaliest)

comparative more offaly · comparative offalier · superlative most offaly · superlative offaliest

  1. alternativeAlternative form of offally.

    I also try adding some chopped turkey liver, as recommended by Delia in another recipe, but find the offaly flavour rather strident;

    2011, Felicity Cloake, Perfect Christmas Day
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    Changes in soluble proteins, free fatty acids and free amino acids were measured, as these degradation products could be responsible for the development of 'livery/offaly' flavor and could also explain the increase meat pH during prolonged chilled meat storage.

    2012, Fereidoon Shahidi, Arthur M. Spanier, Chi-Tang Ho, Quality of Fresh and Processed Foods, page 52

    Human volunteeers rated thirteen different commercial pet food samples, concentrating on eighteen so-called flavour attributes: sweet, sour/acid, tuna, herbal, spicy, soy, salty, cereal, caramel, chicken, methionine, vegetable, offaly, meaty, burnt, prawn, rancid, and bitter.

    2012, Marc Abrahams, This is Improbable

    Liver and bacon was my sister's favourite; the astringent taste of offaly cow's liver, layered with strands of streaky bacon and dashed with a hint of English mustard.

    2015, C. Webster, Southend Made Me, page 64

    Hunter-gatherers – and indeed most human populations before the twentieth century – eschewed lean cuts like fillets in favour of the fattier, gnarlier, offalier cuts because these were far more nutritious.

    2021, James Suzman, Work: A History of How We Spend Our Time, page 106

Offaly2

proper noun

Origin

  1. IrishUíbh Fhailí
  2. IrishUíbh Fhailí
  3. EnglishOffaly

Borrowed from Irish Uíbh Fhailí.

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Translations

Irish Contae Uíbh Fhailí
  • Contae Uíbh Fhailícounty in Ireland
Russian О́ффали
  • О́ффали (Óffali)county in Ireland

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Chicago

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