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12 letters · 18 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun small intestines of hogs prepared as food
originFrom Middle English cheterlingis, chitterling, chitterlynge, chytyrlynge, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *kūtiz, *kut-, from Proto-Indo-European *gud-, *gewd- (“intestine, gut”), from *gʷu-, *gū- (“to bend, curve, bow, camber, vault, distend”). Compare Middle Low German kǖtel (“entrails, tripe”), German Kutteln (“tripe”) and Scots kyte (“belly, stomach”). Compare also Icelandic kviður (“stomach”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0
Words from these letters
- chitterling 17
- restitching 17
- chittering 16
- glitchiest 16
- stretching 16
- chiseling 15
- chitlings 15
- glitchier 15
- retchings 15
- stitching 15
- slithering 14
- lecithins 14