Crossword clues for chitterlings
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Chitterlings \Chit"ter*lings\, n. pl. [Cf. AS. cwi[thorn] womb, Icel. kvi[eth], Goth. qi[thorn]us, belly, womb, stomach, G. kutteln chitterlings.] (Cookery) The smaller intestines of swine, etc., fried for food. [1913 Webster] ||
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 13c., cheterlingis "entrails, souse" (early 13c. in surnames), origins obscure, but probably from an unrecorded Old English word having something to do with entrails (related to Old English cwið "womb;" compare German Kutteln "guts, bowels, tripe, chitterlings," Gothic qiþus "womb"). Variants chitlins (1842) and chitlings (1880) both also had a sense of "shreds, tatters."\n\n"While I was in this way rollin' in clover, by picturin' what was to be, they wur tarin' my character all to chitlins up at home."
[John S. Robb, "Streaks of Squatter Life," Philadelphia, 1843]
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. small intestine, boiled and fried, usually of a pig. Sometimes prepared with hog maws. Etymology 2
n. (lang=en chitterling)
WordNet
Wikipedia
Chitterlings ( or ; sometimes spelled/pronounced chitlins or chittlins) is an economical dish, usually made from the small intestines of a pig, although the intestines of cattle and other animals are sometimes so named when used as a foodstuff.
Usage examples of "chitterlings".
A man whose eyes could go moist with appetite at the thought of fried chitterlings and roast pork for dinner on a scorching July afternoon in the Mediterranean, and who could look forward with pleasure to cold leg of pork for breakfast next day should by right have been fat like a pig himself.
Within the arms of the grove, Zuniin was greeted by sounds and smells of home: brindle mush bubbling, bed moss drying over low fires, chitterlings aroast on pointed stakes, damp reedcloth steaming with human body heat.
Sharne turned the chitterlings and poked them with a stick to make the grease ooze.
There were chitterlings tender and halma crisp, redspear and hot mush.
The cabin boy, pursuing notions of his own, made a pitfall for the whole pig, but as the others did not help him, and as he was an excessively small--though shrewd--cabin boy, it was a feeble and insufficient pitfall, and all it caught was the hunter of chitterlings, who was wandering distraught.
After which the hunter of chitterlings, became a hunter of cabin boys, and the cabin boy's life, for all his shrewdness, was precarious and unpleasant.
Bledsoe, that model of propriety, eating chitterlings secretly in private so white men won't see him.
In this section, Ellison has the narrator mention not only chitterlings, but also pigs' ears, pork chops, black-eyed peas, and mustard greens.
Robin was good for a jar of hooch, a mess of chitterlings, and an imaginative screw, but what then?
His belly was bloated with what we later learned was chitterlings and turnip greens, none of it cooked under the most sanitary conditions.
After a rousing one he threw up all over the table (did I mention the chitterlings and turnip greens earlier?
I wants some frozen chitterlings,' and her sharp reply, 'If you wants to eat 'em frozen just take 'em outside and freeze 'em.