chitlingn.
1. Another form of chitterling n.: widely used in English dialects, and in U.S.: cf. also chidlings n.
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the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > part or joint of animal > [noun] > pluck, offal, or tripe
tripea1300
numblesc1330
tripea1400
chitterling?c1400
giblet14..
hasletc1400
umbles14..
womb cloutc1400
garbage1422
offala1425
interlardc1440
hinge1469
draught?a1475
mugget1481
paunch1512
purtenance1530
pertinence1535
chawdron1578
menudes1585
humblesa1592
gut?1602
pluck1611
sheep's-pluck1611
fifth quarter1679
trail1764
fry1847
chitling1869
small goods1874
black tripe1937
variety meat1942
1869 Overland Monthly Aug. 130/1 Then there are the delusive ‘kettlings’, among the ‘low-down’ people... I will simply say that it is fried sausages, minus all the unhealthy and absurd meat which most people insist on stuffing into the intestinal integuments.
1886 R. E. G. Cole Gloss. Words S.-W. Lincs. Chitlings.
1887 Boston (Mass.) Jrnl. 31 Dec. 2/4 A dish of smoking sausages was flanked by a dish of chitlins.
1888 F. T. Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk. Chitlings,..the small intestines of the pig—usually fried as a great delicacy amongst the poor.
1888 S. O. Addy Gloss. Words Sheffield 41 To beg the chitlings of pigs.
1888 B. Lowsley Gloss. Berks. Words & Phrases 59 Chidlings or chitlings.
2. figurative. Rags, tatters, shreds. U.S.
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1843 J. S. Robb Streaks Squatter Life 135 They wur tarin' my character all to chitlins.
1855 T. C. Haliburton Nature & Human Nature II. ii. 47 To tear my reputation to chitlins.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online March 2021).
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