chitterling

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Malivoire, excited by his success, went on There is nothing for the rheumatics like a chitterling poultice!

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  1. In cookery, part of the frill-like small intestine, as of swine, fried for food; also, a kind of sausage: generally used in the plural. Also chitling. His warped ear hung o′er the strings, Which was but souse to chitterlings. S. Butler, Hudibras, I. ii. 20.
  2. The frill to the breast of a shirt. Of an Italian waist, we make an English petycoate; of a French ruffe, an English chytterling. Gascoigne, Delicate Diet for Droonkardes.

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  • There's a lot of chitterling crotch in these pictures. —  Dlisted - Be Very Afraid
  • Malivoire, excited by his success, went on There is nothing for the rheumatics like a chitterling poultice! —  The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume 4 (of 8)
  • You love a chit, a chitterling--a pretty thing that can but peep and mutter, whose heart's depths I have sounded with my finger-nail, and whose babyish vanity I have tickled with a straw This was enough and too much Madam," said I, "the clear stars are not fouled by throwing filth at them, nor yet the Lady Helene--whom I do acknowledge that with all my heart I love--by the speaking of any ill words. —  Red Axe
  • It's a chitterling, I believe! —  The Fat and the Thin
  • Malivoire, excited by his success, went on There's nothing for the rheumatics like a chitterling poultice! —  Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant
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  1. Also contr. chitling (cf. English dial. chitters, part of the entrails of a goose); from Middle English chitterlinge, spelled chytyrlynge, chyterlyng, prob. allied to Scots kite = Low German küt, küte, belly: see kite. Cf. German kutteln, entrails; Goth, kwithus, belly.
 

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