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HUMBLE-PIE

\hˈʌmbə͡lpˈa͡ɪ], \hˈʌmbə‍lpˈa‍ɪ], \h_ˈʌ_m_b_əl_p_ˈaɪ]\

Definitions of HUMBLE-PIE

1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
1908 - Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary of the English Language

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A pie made of humbles. To eat humble-pie, to make humble and humiliating apology.

1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
By Nuttall, P.Austin.

As in the phrase, "to eat humble-pie, or umble-pie," to eat one's own words; to be obliged to act in a very humiliating way-that is, to stoop, as it were, to eat a pie made of umbles.

1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.

hum'bl-p[=i], n. a pie made of the umbles or numbles (liver, heart, &c.) of a deer.--EAT HUMBLE-PIE, to humiliate one's self, eat one's own words.

1908 - Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary of the English Language
By Thomas Davidson

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