TRIPE - 11 definitions found
tripe n 1: lining of the stomach of a ruminant (especially a bovine) used as food 2: nonsensical talk or writing [syn: folderol, rubbish, tripe, trumpery, trash, wish-wash, applesauce, codswallop] tripe petri tripe 13c., from O.Fr. tripe "entrails used as food," perhaps via Sp. tripa from Ar. therb "suet." Applied contemptuously to persons (1595), then to anything considered worthless, foolish, or offensive (1892). Oxford English Reference Dictionary
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner\'s English Dictionary tripe 1. Tripe is the stomach of a pig, cow, or ox which is eaten as food. N-UNCOUNT 2. You refer to something that someone has said or written as tripe when you think that it is silly and worthless. (INFORMAL) I've never heard such a load of tripe in all my life. = rubbish N-UNCOUNT English Explanatory Dictionary tripe traɪp n. 1 the first or second stomach of a ruminant, esp. an ox, as food. 2 colloq. nonsense, rubbish (don't talk such tripe). [ME f. OF, of unkn. orig.] 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue TRIPE The belly, or guts. Mr. Double Tripe; a fat man. Tripes and trullibubs; the entrails: also a jeering appellation for a fat man. Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) Tripe \Tripe\, n. [OE. tripe, F. tripe; of uncertain origin; cf. Sp. & Pg. tripa, It. trippa, OD. tripe, W. tripa, Armor. stripen.] 1. The large stomach of ruminating animals, when prepared for food. How say you to a fat tripe finely broiled ? --Shak. 2. The entrails; hence, humorously or in contempt, the belly; -- generally used in the plural. --Howell. Soule\'s Dictionary of English Synonyms tripe n. 1. Entrails, intestines. 2. (Ludicrous.) Human belly. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 81 Moby Thesaurus words for "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 |
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