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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. The small intestines of pigs, especially when cooked and eaten as food.

Wiktionary

  1. n. small pig intestine, boiled and fried. Sometimes prepared with hog maws.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. (Cookery) The smaller intestines of swine, etc., fried for food.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. small intestines of hogs prepared as food

Etymologies

  1. From Middle English chiterling, probably diminutive of Old English *cieter, intestines. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  • yarb One of my favourite episodes from G&P. The image of the chitterling army in full charge is marvellous even by Rabelaisian standards. Jan 11, 2009

  • sionnach
    "In south these ancient giants were nothing more than Chitterlings from the waist down - I tell no lies - the serpent who tempted Eve was a Chitterling, yet it is written of him that he was wilier and subtler than other animals. So are Chitterlings. Furthermore some academics maintain that this tempter was the Chitterling named Ithyphallus, into whose shape good master Priapus was once transformed, a great tempter of women in paradise as they say in Greek, or what we call pleasure gardens in French . . . If what I am saying stretches your Lordship' credulity, then go, an it please you (after drinking that is) to Lusignan, Vouvant, Mervent and Pouzauges in Poitou, where you will find solid witnesses of ancient renown, who will swear to you on the armbone of St Rigomer, that Melusine, their foundress was a woman down to the cockbone, and the rest below that was a snaky Chitterling of a Chitterling snake . . . The Scythian nymph Ora likewise was partly woman and partly Chitterling in body. Nevertheless she seemed so beautiful to Jupiter that he lay with her and had a fine son off her named Colaxes." Rabelais, Pantagruel, quart livre, chapter 38. Jan 11, 2009

  • dontcry Barf. Jun 26, 2008

  • bilby The twit. Jun 26, 2008

  • yarb Whenever anyone was killing a
    pig, she would buy (they called her Pig Susie)
    chitterlings, brains, blood, for a shilling a
    bucketful. Married to the big, boozy
    owner of the Glebe farm...

    - Peter Reading, An Everyday Story of Countryfolk, from Fiction, 1979 Jun 26, 2008

  • reesetee Don't look at me. Wouldn't touch the stuff. Popular in the Southern United States, though. Right, skipvia? Feb 23, 2008

  • sonofgroucho People actually eat this? Feb 23, 2008

  • reesetee Also chitlings or chitlins. Dec 19, 2007

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