entrails

American  

[en-treylz, -truhlz] / ˈɛn treɪlz, -trəlz /

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.

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entrails British  

/ ˈɛntreɪlz /

plural noun

1. the internal organs of a person or animal; intestines; guts

2. the innermost parts of anything

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Etymology

Origin of entrails

1250–1300; Middle English entrailles < Anglo-French, Middle French < Vulgar Latin *interālia (compare early Medieval Latin intrālia ), alteration, by suffix change ( -al ¹ ), of Latin interānea guts, neuter plural of interāneus; see inter-, -an, -eous

Example Sentences

In his early years, Padrino was sent to the U.S. for infantry training at Fort Benning, Ga., which he said provided insight into American culture, what he called “the monster in its entrails.”

From The Wall Street Journal

“A Big Bold Beautiful Journey” is sticky sweet and sludgy and so cloyingly aesthetic that the roadkill bleeds ropes of twee entrails.

From Los Angeles Times

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.

From Seattle Times

The entrails of a nearby building were on show.

From BBC

The glaze contracted without exposing much clay, bunching up into a kind of dense-packed low relief and a pattern that suggests entrails.

From New York Times

Related Words

• insides