innards
- the internal parts of the body; entrails or viscera.
- the internal mechanism, parts, structure, etc., of something; the interior of something: an engine's innards.
Origin of innards
Examples from the Web for innards
Contemporary Examples of innards
Our animators are very excited to be drawing the innards of a human being.
‘Archer’ Creator Adam Reed Spills Season 6 Secrets, From Surreal Plotlines to Life Post-ISISMarlow Stern
January 8, 2015
One customer retooled a Nintendo Wii with its innards switched out for glued pennies.
Or you can mount a flayed rabbit to hang in your living room while a chef turns its innards into a nose-to-tail feast.
But when I heard someone cock his rifle, I felt my innards dissolve.
The book delivers a torrent of detail, in a form as precisely machined as the innards of a Swiss watch.
Historical Examples of innards
That's a better bandobust than baynit get it in your innards.
Soldiers Three, Part II.Rudyard Kipling
He gave you three the127 head, and the hoofs, and the innards, and the tail.
The Man Who Lost HimselfH. De Vere Stacpoole
Oh, I dunno, Jud, but I've got a powerful hurtin' in my innards.
The Bishop of CottontownJohn Trotwood Moore
This city will destroy itself, like a rat eating its own innards.
The Saracen: The Holy WarRobert Shea
So saying, he let the grateful sunlight into the Dromedary's innards.
Humour of the NorthLawrence J. Burpee
innards
- the internal organs of the body, esp the viscera
- the interior parts or components of anything, esp the working parts
Word Origin for innards
Word Origin and History for innards
1825, innerds, dialectal variant of inwards "the bowels" (c.1300); see inward.