numbles

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noun

The entrails of a deer or other animal, used for food.

OriginMiddle French nombles ← Anglo-Norman lumbles ← Latin lumbulus →
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Meanings

nounnumbles pl (plural only)

alternative nombles

  1. archaicpluralplural onlyThe entrails of a deer or other animal, used for food.

    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 [...].

    1940, TH White, The Ill-Made Knight

Origin

  1. Latinlumbulus
  2. Anglo-Normanlumbles“loins”
  3. Middle Frenchnombles“loin of meat”
  4. Englishnumbles

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”).

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Chicago

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