chitterling

English

Etymology

When ironed out, it resembled the small entrails, or chitterlings.

Noun

chitterling (plural chitterlings)

1. (obsolete) The frill to the breast of a shirt.

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2. A single piece of chitterlings (intestine used as food).

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “chitterling”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)