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chitter (v.)[chitter 词源字典]: c. 1200, imitative of birds. Related: Chittered; chittering.[chitter etymology, chitter origin, 英语词源]
chitter-chatter (n.): 1712, reduplicated form of chatter (n.). As a verb from 1804. Related: Chitter-chattering.
chitterlings (n.): late 13c., cheterlingis "entrails, souse" (early 13c. in surnames), origins obscure, but probably from an unrecorded Old English word having something to do with entrails (related to Old English cwið "womb;" compare German Kutteln "guts, bowels, tripe, chitterlings," Gothic qiþus "womb"). Variants chitlins (1842) and chitlings (1880) both also had a sense of "shreds, tatters."
"While I was in this way rollin' in clover, by picturin' what was to be, they wur tarin' my character all to chitlins up at home." [John S. Robb, "Streaks of Squatter Life," Philadelphia, 1843]
no-hitter (n.): baseball term for a baseball game in which one side fails to make a hit, 1939, from no + hit (n.).