innards

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I feel like my innards are currently residing atop my epidermis.

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  1. plural noun Informal Internal bodily organs; viscera.
  2. plural noun Informal The inner parts, as of a machine.

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  • This phrase is actually a pun on umble pie , a lowly servants' dish made from the umbles ("innards," ultimately from the Latin lumbus , "loin") of deer, as opposed to the venison their masters ate. —  The Word Detective
  • Maybe her body was a mere shell without innards, and her mind did not exist, but that did not seem to make much difference at the moment. —  Geis of the Gargoyle
  • There were holes through which we could see the workings of his innards, and now, as he lay, his skin pulsating, yet another pair of arms pushing forth out of his sockets, his words were hoarse and accompanied by a bizarre whistling as breath passed through the many extra channels in his flesh. —  Asimov'sSF,April-May2008
  • These recordings truly re-summoned the old innards, all the guts and heart, of the irreparably deluded, commerce-addled am-pop group. —  The Music Fix
  • I feel like my innards are currently residing atop my epidermis. —  Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch
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  1. Alteration of inwards, pl. of inward.
 

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