This week’s theme
Food words used metaphorically

This week’s words
farce
jammy
tripe
barmy
taffy

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PRONUNCIATION:

(tryp)

MEANING:

noun
1. The lining from the stomach of a ruminant animal, especially cattle and sheep, used as food.
2. Worthless or rubbish (often used to describe written or spoken material).

ETYMOLOGY:

From Old French tripe/trippe (entrails). The metaphorical sense emerged from tripe’s historical reputation as inexpensive, less desirable food. Earliest documented use: 1300.

USAGE:

“I didn’t want to watch the reality-TV tripe.”
William McInnes; “Elvis Plays a Former Trapeze Artist With Vertigo Who Becomes a Nightclub Singer”; The Courier-Mail (Brisbane, Australia); Mar 23, 2019.

“[Stan] Lee would send a story for an issue to an artist, who would lay out the actual story on the page, leaving room for dialog. Lee would then fill in the bubbles, often with melodramatic, pseudo-Shakespearean tripe.”
Adam Rogers; To Be Continued ...; Wired (San Francisco, California); Jan 2019.

See more usage examples of tripe in Vocabulary.com’s dictionary.

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