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chitling

chitling is the alternative form of chitterling.

Meaning of chitterling

Noun

chitterling (plural chitterlings)

  1. (obsolete) The frill to the breast of a shirt.
    • And some wear lattice caps with three horns, three corners I should say, like the forked caps of popish priests, with their periwinkles, chitterlings, and the like apish toys of infinite varietya. 1621, John Harland, Shuttleworth Family, The House and Farm Accounts of the Shuttleworths of Gawthorpe Hall, in the County of Lancaster, at Smithils and Gawthorpe: From September 1582 to October...
  2. A single piece of chitterlings (intestine used as food).

Forms of chitling

pluralchitlings

Questions about chitling

What is chitling the alternative form of?
Chitling is the alternative form of chitterling.

Words near chitling in the dictionary

  1. chitinozoan
  2. chitinozoans
  3. chitins
  4. chitlin
  5. Chitlin' Circuit
  6. chitling
  7. chitlings
  8. chitlins
  9. chitmahal
  10. chitmahals
  11. chitmunk

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