chitterlings

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

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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”).

chitterlings pl (plural only)

1. Small 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 […]

• chitlins
• chitlings

• tripe

From chitterling +‎ -s.

chitterlings

1. plural of chitterling