humble pie
nounEtymology
The expression derives from umble pie, the original name of the offal meat pie, considered inferior food. In medieval times the pie was often served to lower-class people. Although "umbles" and the modern word "humble" are etymologically unrelated, each word has appeared both with and without the initial "h" after the Middle Ages until the 19th century.
Definitions
A pie made from the offal of deer or hog.
Humility, being humble.
- Talking of piemen, humble-pie before proud-cake for me. This notion of being lone and lofty is a sad mistake.
The neighborhood
- neighboreat crow
- neighboreat boiled crow
- neighbornumbles
- neighborpity pie
Derived
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for humble pie. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA