umbles

[ uhm-buhlz ]

plural noun

1. numbles.

umbles

/ ˈʌmbəlz /

plural noun

1. another term for numbles

Word History and Origins

Origin of umbles¹

late Middle English word dating back to 1400–50

Example Sentences

The term humble pie, for example, comes from pies made with umbles, or scraps of meat and offal that fed peasants who were seated far away from royalty at banquets.

From Seattle Times

Umbles, um′blz, n.pl. the entrails of a deer.—n.

From Project Gutenberg

They make excellent broth of the head and umbles of a deer, which they put into the pot all bloody.

From Project Gutenberg

The wild bird’s flesh is not their food, No common umbles are their dole; I nourish them well with infants’ blood, Those precious vipers of my soul.

From Project Gutenberg

Those peasants whom we came across Feared us, indeed, as they would the very Fiend, but bore us no malice; for we always treated them with civility, and not rarely gave them the Umbles and other inferior parts of the Deer, against their poor Christenings and Lyings-in.

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