chitterlings

Meaning

Noun

• Small intestine, boiled and fried, usually of a pig. Sometimes prepared with hog maws.
• Plural of chitterling

Related

Similar words

• chitlins
• chitlings

Origin

• From Middle English cheterlingis, chitterling, chitterlynge, chytyrlynge, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *kweþuz, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷet-, *gūt-, from *gʷu-, *gū-.
• Compare German Kutteln and Icelandic kviður ("stomach").
• chitterling + -s