different between entrails vs numbles

English

Etymology

From Old French entrailles, from Vulgar Latin intr?lia, from Latin inter?nea, from inter?neus, from inter. Compare Spanish entraña.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ent?e?lz/

Noun

entrails

1. (archaic) plural of entrail

entrails pl (plural only)

1. The internal organs of an animal, especially the intestines. [from 14th c.]

   Synonyms: bowels, innards, intestines, offal, viscera

2. (obsolete) The seat of the emotions. [14th–18th c.]

Translations

References

• James A. H. Murray [et al.], editors (1884–1928) , “Entrails”, in A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), volume III (D–E), London: Clarendon Press, OCLC 15566697, page 221, column 2.

Anagrams

• Latiners, art lines, larnites, latrines, ratlines, retinals, slantier, trainels, trenails

English

Alternative forms

• nombles

Etymology

From Middle French nombles (“loin of meat”), alteration (with dissimilation) of Old French and Anglo-Norman lumbles (“loins”), from Latin lumbulus, diminutive of lumbus (“loin”).

Noun

numbles pl (plural only)

1. (archaic) The entrails of a deer or other animal, used for food.
   • 1940, TH White, The Ill-Made Knight:

     In the kitchens the famous cooks were preparing menus which included, for one course alone: ballock broth, caudle ferry, lampreys en gelatine, oysters in civey, eels in sorré, baked trout, brawn in mustard, numbles of a hart, pigs farsed [...].

Derived terms

• umbles