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umbles en · NOUN · etymology 1

Etymology

Variant of numbles.

Meanings

  1. (archaic, plural, plural-only) Animal entrails, especially of a deer.
    • When Thetis deserted Peleus, he took the child to Cheiron the Centaur, who reared him on Mount Pelion, feeding him on the umbles of lions and wild boars, and the marrow of bears, to give him courage [...]. 1955, Robert Graves, The Greek Myths:

Forms

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humbles alternative lexicographic

Deriveds

humble pie

umbles en · NOUN · etymology 2

Meanings

  1. (plural, plural-only) A set of symptoms of hypothermia: stumbling (incoordination), mumbling (difficulty speaking), fumbling (also incoordination but different this time in some way), and grumbling (worsening mood)

Forms

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the umbles Number=Plur canonical lexicographic
humbles alternative lexicographic