Meanings
offaly1
comparative more offaly · comparative offalier · superlative most offaly · superlative offaliest
- 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 Day4 more examples
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 52Human 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 ImprobableLiver 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 64Hunter-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
Origin
- IrishUíbh Fhailí
- IrishUíbh Fhailí
- EnglishOffaly
Borrowed from Irish Uíbh Fhailí.
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Irish Contae Uíbh Fhailí
- Contae Uíbh Fhailícounty in Ireland
Russian О́ффали
- О́ффали (Óffali)county in Ireland
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