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umbles

English

Alternative forms

  • humbles

Etymology

Variant of numbles.

Noun

umbles pl (plural only)

  1. (archaic) Animal entrails, especially of a deer.

Derived terms

  • humble pie

References

  • umbles in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
  • umbles at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

  • umbels

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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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