Kuttel

Part of speech: noun

Definitions

1. Edible animal entrails, especially the stomach lining of a cow or sheep, cleaned and cooked as a traditional dish in South Africa
2. The offal of an animal, such as tripe or intestines, prepared and eaten as food in Afrikaans and South African cooking
3. A type of cooked offal made from an animal's stomach or intestines, served in southern African cuisine

Etymology: In South Africa, "kuttel" is the everyday name for tripe, the stomach lining of cattle, sold as food and often cooked as a stew. It came into South African English from Afrikaans, the language that grew out of the Dutch spoken by settlers at the Cape from the 1650s onward. The Dutch ancestry is the most likely source, but the exact older form and its route into Afrikaans are not something I can confirm, so the precise chain of borrowing remains uncertain. What is clear is that the term belongs to the vocabulary of Cape cooking, where offal dishes were part of everyday meals, and it stayed rooted in that local kitchen tradition rather than spreading into standard English.