numblesとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

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”).

名詞

numbles (複数形 only)

1. (archaic) The entrails of a deer or other animal, used for food.
   • 1940, TH White, The Ill-Made Knight:

     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 [...].

派生語

• umbles