chitterlings

English

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃɪ.tɚ.lɪŋz/, [ˈt͡ʃɪ.ɾɚ.lɪŋz], /ˈt͡ʃɪt.lɪnz/
• (African-American Vernacular) IPA^(key): [ˈtʃɪt.lɪnz], [tʃɪːlɪnz]

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Etymology 1

From Middle English cheterlingis, chitterling, chitterlynge, chytyrlynge, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *kūtiz, *kut-, from Proto-Indo-European *gud-, *gewd- (“intestine, gut”), from *gʷu-, *gū- (“to bend, curve, bow, camber, vault, distend”). Compare Middle Low German kǖtel (“entrails, tripe”), German Kutteln (“tripe”) and Scots kyte (“belly, stomach”). Compare also Icelandic kviður (“stomach”).

Noun

chitterlings pl (plural only)

1. 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

• chitlins
• chitlings

Translations

small pig intestine, boiled and fried

• Bulgarian: чревца (črevca)
• French: tripes de porc m pl
• German: Innereien (de) f pl
• Hungarian: sertésbelsőség, belsőség (hu)
• Italian: frattaglie (it) f pl
• Latin: lactēs f pl
• Neapolitan: capeto
• Serbo-Croatian: svinjski rajžlec m, svinjska crevca n pl
• Spanish: gallinejas f pl (Spain), chunchules (es) m pl (Chile) (usually of beef), chunchullo (es) m, chinchulín m, chinchurria (es) f, chunchurria (es) f, choncholi m (Peru)

See also

• tripe

Etymology 2

From chitterling +‎ -s.

Noun

chitterlings

1. plural of chitterling