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chitlingses

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chit⋅lings

  [chit-linz, -lingz]
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–noun
chitterlings.
Also, chit⋅lins  [chit-linz] .

chit⋅ter⋅lings

  [chit-linz, -lingz]
–noun (used with a singular or plural verb)
the small intestine of swine, esp. when prepared as food.
Also, chitlings, chitlins.

Origin:
1250–1300; ME cheterling; akin to G Kutteln in same sense
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chitterlings 
1221, cheterlingis "entrails, souse," origins obscure, but probably from O.E. and having something to do with entrails (related to O.E. cwið "womb;" cf. Ger. Kutteln "guts, bowels, tripe, chitterlings"). Variants chitlins (1845) and chitlings (1880) both also had a sense of "shreds, tatters."
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