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(noun) - (1) A piece of bread eaten immediately after bathing.
--Alexander Warrack's Scots Dialect Dictionary, 1911
(2) From chitter, to shiver; to tremble. Hence, boys are wont to call that bit of bread which they preserve for eating after bathing a chittering-piece.
--John Jamieson's Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language, 1808
January 17, 2018