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Quote from: Nick on April 26, 2009, 03:42:30 PMPieHumble?
Quote from: Pastis on April 26, 2009, 04:41:49 PMQuote from: Nick on April 26, 2009, 03:42:30 PMPieHumble?Cow
To eat humble pie (1830) is from umble pie (1648), pie made from umbles "edible inner parts of an animal" (especially deer), considered a low-class food. The similar sense of similar-sounding words (the "h" of humble was not pronounced then) converged in the pun. Umbles, meanwhile, is M.E. numbles "offal" (with loss of n- through assimilation into preceding article), from O.Fr. nombles "loin, fillet," from L. lumulus, dim. of lumbus "loin."
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