Noun: entrail
| Singular | entrail |
| Plural | entrails |
Sample Sentences
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She might even bust an entrail if she went on a little farther in the official code [1957, Bill Bryson, “They Still Ride 'Em Rough”, in Baseball Digest, volume 16, number 8, page 57:]
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Those blackguards have no more respect for an entrail, or a sinew, or a vital organ, than if they were gutting dog-fish. [1922-1976, Liam O'Flaherty, “The Post Office”, in Liam O'Flaherty: the collected stories, page 55:]
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Did an entrail-reading priest find something nasty in the offal? [2006, Robert Ludlum, The Ambler Warning, page 427:]
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"About her cursed head, whose folds displaid / Were stretcht now forth at length without entraile." [1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, page 1.1.18:]
Nouns inflected like entrail
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English entraille, from Old French entraille (compare modern French entrailles), from Late Latin intrālia, modification of Latin intrānea, contraction of interāneum (“gut, intestine”), substantive of interāneus (“internal, inward”). See: Middle English Nouns '
entraille', French Nouns '
entrailles', Latin Nouns '
intrānea'.