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nombles

nombles is the alternative form of numbles.

Meaning of numbles

Noun

numbles pl (plural only)

  1. (archaic, plural, plural-only) The 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

Questions about nombles

What is nombles the alternative form of?
Nombles is the alternative form of numbles.

Words near nombles in the dictionary

  1. NOMAS
  2. nomatophobia
  3. nomber
  4. nombers
  5. Nombi
  6. nombles
  7. Nombre de Jesús
  8. nombril
  9. nombril point
  10. nombril points
  11. nombrilism

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