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 *kweþuz, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷet-, *gūt- (“swelling, rounding; stomach, gut”), from *gʷu-, *gū- (“to bend, curve, bow, camber, vault, distend”). Compare German Kutteln (“tripe”) and 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

chitterling +‎ -s

Noun

chitterlings

1. plural of chitterling