chitterlings
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English[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈt͡ʃɪ.tɚ.lɪŋz/, [ˈt͡ʃɪ.ɾɚ.lɪŋz], /ˈt͡ʃɪt.lɪnz/
- (AAVE) IPA(key): [ˈtʃɪt.lɪnz], [tʃɪːlɪnz]
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Etymology 1[edit]
From Middle English cheterlingis, chitterling, chitterlynge, chytyrlynge, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *kweþuz, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷet-, *gūt- (“swelling, rounding; stomach, gut”), from *gʷu-, *gū- (“to bend, curve, bow, camber, vault, distend”). Compare German Kutteln (“tripe”) and Icelandic kviður (“stomach”).
Noun[edit]
chitterlings pl (plural only)
- Large intestine, cleaned and defatted, usually of a pig. Sometimes prepared with hog maws.
- 1604, Thomas Dekker, Thomas Middleton, “The Honest Whore, […]”, in The Dramatic Works of Thomas Dekker […], volume II, London: John Pearson […], published 1873, →OCLC, Act III, scene i, page 40:
- How fare I? troth for ſixpence a meale, wench, as well as heart can wiſh, with Calves chaldrons and chitterlings […]
Synonyms[edit]
Translations[edit]
small pig intestine, boiled and fried
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Etymology 2[edit]
chitterling + -s
Noun[edit]
chitterlings
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