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noun (used with a singular or plural verb)
the small intestine of swine, especially when prepared as food.
Also, chitlings, chitlins.
Origin:
1250–1300; Middle English cheterling; akin to German Kutteln in same sense
1250–1300; Middle English cheterling; akin to German 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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