'Offal' (pronounced the same as "awful" by many speakers) is a culinary term used to refer to the entrails and internal organs of a butchered animal.
In the cuisine of modern Rome quinto quarto (literally the "fifth quarter") is the offal of butchered animals.
Just lifted and left her lying there like a butchered animal.
Like a butchered animal, thought Daniel.
The viscera, when removed from a butchered animal, are known collectively as offal.
Their throats had been cut and they lay like butchered animals in a waste of blood.
In the late 19th century when flocks of Pipipis were still abundant, they would occasionally descend on slaughteryards in sheep stations when food was short to feed on the meat of butchered animals.
Huge tracks were found near the two butchered animals and Wulf, the senior woodsman, pronounced them to be Troll-spoor.
Since many Cajuns and Creoles were farmers and not especially wealthy, they were known for not wasting any part of a butchered animal.
Ironically, it also appears as though the main course is being prepared (butchered animals).