Definition of Chitlings

1. Noun. Small intestines of hogs prepared as food.

Exact synonyms: Chitlins, Chitterlings
Generic synonyms: Organs, Variety Meat

Definition of Chitlings

1. chitling [n] - See also: chitling

Lexicographical Neighbors of Chitlings

chitenge
chitenges
chitin synthase
chitinase
chitinization
chitinizations
chitinlike
chitinoid
chitinolysis
chitinolytic
chitinous
chitins
chitlin
chitling
chitlings (current term)
chitlins
chitobiose
chitobiosyldiphosphodolichol beta-mannosyltransferase
chitobiosylpyrophosphoryldolichol synthase
chitodextrinase
chiton
chitons
chitooligomer
chitooligomers
chitooligosaccharide
chitooligosaccharides
chitosamine
chitosan
chitosans

Literary usage of Chitlings

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Tramp Abroad by Mark Twain (1906)
"Hot corn-pone, with chitlings, Southern style. Hot hoe-cake, Southern style. Hot egg-bread, Southern style. Hot light-bread, Southern style. Buttermilk. ..."

2. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1881)
"... the clerks are of assorted ages, in the most part chitlings, here and there a matron's face, but densely between, as if waiting to receive a charge of ..."

3. Publications by English Dialect Society (1875)
"... pavements chippings are made and sold in ' larga quantities. To 4 loads Westleigh chippings delivered . . £i 4*. Or/. /•'ram a Bill, 1885. chitlings ..."

4. Recreations of an Anthologist by Brander Matthews (1904)
"Heaven knows how often we've been whipped like curs, By those to whom we've knelt as worshippers; Heaven only knows how oft, like froward chitlings, ..."

5. Ainsworth's Magazine: A Miscellany of Romance, General Literature, & Art by William Harrison Ainsworth, George Cruikshank, Hablot Knight Browne (1845)
"... remarkable enough, the very man he thought, twelve months ago, had carried the small hamper of marrowbones, proposed a bet of a turkey, with chitlings, ..."

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