Definition of Chitlins

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

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

Definition of Chitlins

1. Noun. (dialect form of chitterlings) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Chitlins

1. chitlin [n] - See also: chitlin

Lexicographical Neighbors of Chitlins

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

Literary usage of Chitlins

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

1. Dictionary of Americanisms: A Glossary of Words and Phrases Usually Regarded by John Russell Bartlett (1877)
"chitlins. (A contraction of chitterlings.) Rags, tatters. While I was in this way rolling in clover, they were tearing my character all to chitlins up at ..."

2. Publications by English Dialect Society (1884)
"... or chitlins.—Chitterlings. CHILDERN,—Children. CHIMBLEY.—A chimney: a chimney sweep is a "chimbley swape." CHINKIN'.—Metallic rattling noise as of a ..."

3. The Wit and Humor of America by Marshall Pinckney Wilder (1911)
"... into chitlins!' That's about the way you give Bunch to Simon." "Oh, shuh, Ben," remarked Simon, "I wouldn't run on that way. Daddy couldn't help it; ..."

4. Streaks of Squatter Life, and Far-West Scenes: A Series of Humorous Sketches by John S. Robb (1847)
"While I was in this way rollin' in clover, by pic- turin' what was to be, they wur tarin' my character all to chitlins up at home. ..."

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