different between numbles vs humbles

numbles

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

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humbles

English

Etymology 1

See humble

Verb

humbles

  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of humble

Noun

humbles

  1. plural of humble

Etymology 2

From numbles

Alternative forms

  • umbles

Noun

humbles pl (plural only)

  1. (archaic) Entrails of a deer.
Derived terms
  • humble pie

References

  • humbles in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

French

Adjective

humbles

  1. plural of humble

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