numbles

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11
Words With Friends
16
Letters
7

Definition of numbles

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  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 [...].”

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Etymology

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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