grilled offal; hormone grill
A dish of grilled beef or pork offal (intestines, liver, etc.), popular in yakiniku and Korean-style barbecue. The name is a pun on 'hormone' and the Osaka dialect word 放る物 (throwaway parts).
How about going out for grilled offal tonight?
The grilled offal at this restaurant is fresh and has no unpleasant smell.
Standard mixed kanji-katakana spelling.
Variant with 焼 without okurigana; seen on menus and signs.
Formed from ホルモン in its culinary sense “offal” and 焼き “grilling.” The source of this sense of ホルモン is disputed; derivation from 放るもん “discarded things” is widely repeated but not securely established.