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Numbles vs Nubbles - What's the difference?

numbles | nubbles |

As a noun numbles

is (archaic) the entrails of a deer or other animal, used for food.

As a verb nubbles is

(nubble).

numbles

English

Alternative forms

* nombles

Noun

(en-plural noun)
  • (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 sorrĂ©, baked trout, brawn in mustard, numbles of a hart, pigs farsed [...].

    Derived terms

    * umbles

    nubbles

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (nubble)

    • nubble

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A small knob or lump.
  • *1897 , Kipling, Captains Courageous ,
    • Harvey saw with disgust that there were no sheets on his bed-place. He was lying on a piece of dingy ticking full of lumps and nubbles .

    Verb

    (nubbl)
  • (obsolete) To beat or bruise with the fist.
    • (Ainsworth)
    (Webster 1913)