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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

TRIPE, n.
1. Properly, the entrails; but in common usage, the large stomach of ruminating animals, prepared for food.
2. In ludicrous language, the belly.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

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]

Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French Date: 14th century 1. stomach tissue especially of a ruminant (as an ox) used as food 2. something poor, worthless, or offensive

Oxford Reference Dictionary

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.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

1. Tripe is the stomach of a pig, cow, or ox which is eaten as food. 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

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. 1. Entrails, intestines. 2. (Ludicrous.) Human belly.

1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue

The belly, or guts. Mr. Double Tripe; a fat man. Tripes and trullibubs; the entrails: also a jeering appellation for a fat man.

Moby Thesaurus

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