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chitterling, n.|ˈtʃɪtəlɪŋ|
(Chiefly in pl.). Forms: 3, 6 cheterling, 5 chytyr-, chiterlynge, 6 chyter-, chetter-, chytterlyng, chiterling, 7 chiter-, 7–9 chitterlin, 6– chitterling.
[Found also in the dial. forms chidling, chitling, chitter, chitteril; the primary form and derivation are doubtful. The Germ. kutteln chawdrons, MHG. kutel, agrees in sense, but has only a remote relation phonetically, coming nearest to the form chidling.]
1. The smaller intestines of beasts, as of the pig, esp. as an article of food prepared by frying or boiling. Sometimes filled with mince-meat or force-meat, as a kind of sausage.
c1280R. de Graystanes in Hist. Dunelm. Script. tres (1839) 57 [Women quarrelling as they wash ‘inwards’ at the stream] Deinde solebamus crines evellere pungnis, cum cheterlingis et monifauldes mutuo nos cedere [= cædere]. c1440Promp. Parv. 76 Chytyrlynge, scrutellum, scrutum. 1530Palsgr. 205/1 Chyterlyng, endoile. 1533Elyot Cast. Helthe (1541) 22 a, The inwarde of beastes, as trypes and chytterlynges. 1585J. Higins Junius' Nomenclator, A haggise: some call it a chitterling: some a hogs harslet. 1604Dekker Honest Wh. i. vii. Wks. 1873 II. 40 How fare I?..as well as heart can wish, with Calves chaldrons and chitterlings. 1611Cotgr., Andouille, a linke, or chitterling; a big hogges gut stuffed with small guts [etc.], cut into small pieces, and seasoned with pepper and salt. 1663Butler Hud. i. ii. 120 His warped Ear hung o'er the Strings, Which was but Souce to Chitterlings. 1747–96H. Glasse Cookery v, Fill up your Chitterlings with the stuffing. 1876Robinson Whitby Gloss., Chitterils, the stomach of the pig, eaten as tripes. 1878Dickinson Cumberl. Gloss., Chitters, the small entrails of the goose or sheep.
b. transf. and fig.
1617Minsheu Ductor, Chitterlin or fat gut, G. le gras boyeau. 1619Middleton Inner Temp. Masque Wks. V. 139, I know him by his gauntness, his thin chitterlings; He would undo a tripe-wife. 1666Wharton Wks. (1683) 413 Th' Indignities once offer'd to our King, Reduce ye [Dutch] from a Cheese, t'a Chitterling. 1687Shadwell Juvenal 305.
†2. A frill, ruff, or ornamental pleating; esp. the frill down the breast of a shirt. Obs.[It has been suggested that this use is due to the likeness of such a frill to the mesentery, called by Butchers the ‘frill’ or ‘crow’: cf. Ger. gekröse used in same way.] [1568Like Will to Like in Hazl. Dodsley III. 310, I learn'd to make ruffs like calves chitterlings.] 1576Gascoigne Delic. Diet Droonkardes (1786) 18 Of a French ruffe, [we make] an English Chytterling. 1630J. Taylor (Water P.) Wks. i. 120 Let..Chitterlings be worne for statute lace. 1807–8W. Irving Salmag. xvii. (1824) 323 Exuberant chitterlings..puffed out at the neck and bosom. 1849Sir G. Head Tour Many Days Rome I. 70 Arranging his paper ruffles and chitterlin.
b. attrib., like a chitterling, frilled in the manner of a chitterling. Obs. exc. dial.
1766[C. Anstey] Bath Guide xi. (1804) 92 With a chitterlin shirt, and a buckle of stone. 1842Akerman Wiltshire Gloss. s.v., Here comes old Warder wi' his chitterlin vrill.
3. [Treated as dim. of chit n.1] A little chit.
1675Cotton Scoffer Scoft 163 She was but poor ten years old, A little snotty Chitterling. 1826Disraeli Viv. Grey v. iii. 176 ‘I'll soon stop thy prate, chitterling!’ |