entrails

Etymology

From Middle English entraille, entrailles, from Old French entrailles, from Vulgar Latin intrālia, from Latin interānea, from interāneus, from inter. Compare Spanish entraña.

noun

1. (archaic) plural of entrail

noun

1. The internal organs of an animal, especially the intestines. [from 14th c.]
   Elizabethan audiences relished shocks and surprises as much as they did trumpets, thunder and savage realism in bloody scenes of torture and death which were made all the more horrible by the use of animals’ entrails. 1987, Christopher Hibbert, The English: A Social History, 1066-1945, page 244
2. (obsolete) The seat of the emotions. [14th–18th c.]