chitlings
[chit-linz, -lingz]
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Also chit·lins [chit-linz] /ˈtʃɪt lɪnz/.
chitterlings
or chit·lings
[chit-linz, -lingz]
- the small intestine of swine, especially when prepared as food.
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Also chit·lins [chit-linz] /ˈtʃɪt lɪnz/.
Origin of chitterlings
1250–1300; Middle English cheterling; akin to German Kutteln in same sense
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Dryin' up de fat for lard, trimmin' an' saltin' de meat an' chitlins.
chitterlings
chitlins (ˈtʃɪtlɪnz) or chitlings (ˈtʃɪtlɪŋz)
- (sometimes singular) the intestines of a pig or other animal prepared as a dish
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Word Origin
C13: of uncertain origin; perhaps related to Middle High German kutel
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Word Origin and History for chitlins
chitterlings
n.
late 13c., cheterlingis "entrails, souse" (early 13c. in surnames), origins obscure, but probably from an unrecorded Old English word having something to do with entrails (related to Old English cwið "womb;" cf. German Kutteln "guts, bowels, tripe, chitterlings," Gothic qiþus "womb"). Variants chitlins (1842) and chitlings (1880) both also had a sense of "shreds, tatters."
"While I was in this way rollin' in clover, by picturin' what was to be, they wur tarin' my character all to chitlins up at home." [John S. Robb, "Streaks of Squatter Life," Philadelphia, 1843]
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