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单词 offalist
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offalistn.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: offal n., -ist suffix.
Etymology: < offal n. + -ist suffix. N.E.D. (1902) enters this under offal and indicates the stress as ˈoffalist.
rare.
A person who gathers or eats offal. Also figurative.
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1822 Sporting Mag. 9 230 Athenæus, that offalist and great gatherer of all town and country talk.
1849 New Monthly Mag. 86 136 ‘Horace Walpole's taste,’ he added, with vehemence, ‘was bad. He was an offalist’.
2004 R. Wood Mackem Mayhem 75 Not for nothing is he the ace offalist (offaleer?), the baron of brawn, the czar of chitterlings, the emir of entrails, the imam of innards, [etc.].
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2019).
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