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numbles

numbles noun: the entrails of a deer or other animal, used for food.

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

Forms of numbles

alternative formnombles

Origin of numbles

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”).

Words formed from numbles

Questions about numbles

What does numbles mean?
Numbles means the entrails of a deer or other animal, used for food.
What part of speech is numbles?
Numbles is a noun.

Words near numbles in the dictionary

  1. numbing out
  2. numbingly
  3. numbingness
  4. numbish
  5. Numbla Vale
  6. numbles
  7. numbly
  8. numbness
  9. numbnesses
  10. numbnut
  11. numbnuts

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