Other forms: trotters
A trotter is a pig's foot used as food. Pig's trotters, boiled trotters, a plate of trotters.
It is almost pure collagen and skin, which is why it turns to gelatine with long cooking and why it is used to give body to stocks and terrines. It is traditional cheap food across Europe and Asia. Note that a trotter is also a horse bred to trot in harness racing, from exactly the same verb.
1nountrotterA pig's foot used as food.
“My grandmother used to boil pigs' trotters to make a rich, sticky stock.”
trotter is a cut of meat.
Trot plus -er. The pig's foot is named for the walking, as is the harness-racing horse.
Middle English
trottere
English, today
trotter
From Middle English trottere, equivalent to trot + -er.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA