Also chitlin. [See CHITTERLING.]

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  1.  Another form of CHITTERLING: widely used in Eng. dialects, and in U.S.: cf. also CHIDLING.

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1886.  Cole, S. W. Lincolnsh. Gloss. (E. D. S.), Chitlings.

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1887.  Boston (Mass.), Jrnl., 31 Dec., 2/4. A dish of smoking sausages was flanked by a dish of chitlins.

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1888.  Elworthy, W. Somerset Word-bk., Chitlings … the small intestines of the pig—usually fried as a great delicacy amongst the poor.

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1888.  Addy, Sheffield Gl., s.v., To beg the chitlings of pigs.

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1888.  Oxford & Berksh. Gl., Chidlings or chitlings.

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  2.  fig. Rags, tatters, shreds. U.S.

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1847.  Robb, Squatter Life, 135 (Bartlett). They wur tarin’ my character all to chitlins up at home.

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1855.  Haliburton, Nat. & Hum. Nat., II. 47 (Bartlett). They did all they could to tear my reputation to chitlins.

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