tripe

• POS: Noun

CIDE DICTIONARY

tripe, n. [OE. tripe, F. tripe; of uncertain origin; cf. Sp. & Pg. tripa, It. trippa, OD. tripe, W. tripa, Armor. stripen.].

•  The large stomach of ruminating animals, when prepared for food.  [1913 Webster]

  "How say you to a fat tripe finely broiled ?"  [1913 Webster]
•  The entrails; hence, humorously or in contempt, the belly; -- generally used in the plural.  Howell.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

tripe, n.
1 the first or second stomach of a ruminant, esp. an ox, as food.
2 colloq. nonsense, rubbish (don't talk such tripe).

Etymology

ME f. OF, of unkn. orig.

THESAURUS

tripe

abatis, abdomen, anus, appendix, baloney, bilge, blah, blah-blah, blind gut, bop, bosh, bowels, brain, brains, bull, bullshit, bunk, bunkum, cecum, chitterlings, cockscomb, colon, crap, duodenum, endocardium, entrails, flapdoodle, foregut, gas, giblets, gizzard, guff, gup, guts, haslet, heart, hindgut, hogwash, hokum, hooey, hot air, innards, inner mechanism, insides, internals, intestine, inwards, jejunum, kidney, kidneys, kishkes, large intestine, liver, liver and lights, lung, malarkey, marrow, midgut, moonshine, perineum, piffle, poppycock, pump, pylorus, rectum, rot, scat, shit, small intestine, spleen, stomach, sweetbread, ticker, tommyrot, tongue, tripes, vermiform appendix, viscera, vitals, wind, works