umbles

Animal entrails, especially of a deer.

Noun archaic, plural

  1. 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,...

Origin

Variant of numbles.

Forms

humbles

Derived

humble pie

Noun plural, plural only

  1. 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

the umbles humbles