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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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chit·lins or chit·lings   (chĭt'lĭnz)   
pl.n.  Variants of chitterlings.
chit·ter·lings also chit·lins or chit·lings   (chĭt'lĭnz)   
pl.n.  The small intestines of pigs, especially when cooked and eaten as food.

[From Middle English chiterling, probably diminutive of Old English *cieter, intestines.]
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Word Origin & History

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."
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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