Humber-keels. See Billy-Boy.
Humble Pie. To eat humble pie, verb. phr. (colloquial).—To submit; to apologise; to knock under. For synonyms, see Cave In.
1862. Thackeray, Philip, xxvii. If this old chief had to eat humble pie, his brave adversaries were anxious that he should gobble up his portion as quickly as possible, and turned away their honest old heads as he swallowed it.
1887. Manville Fenn, This Man’s Wife, ch. ii., 4. Our savings are gone and we must eat humble pie for the future.
Hum-Box, subs. (common).—1. A pulpit.
1725. New Cant. Dict., s.v.
1785. Grose, Vulg. Tongue, s.v.
1827. Lytton, Pelham, p. 302 [Ed. 1862]. Well, you parish bull prig, are you for lushing Jacky, or pattering in the hum-box?
1858. A. Mayhew, Paved with Gold, bk. III., ch. ix., p. 309. He was nicknamed the ‘Amen bawler’ (parson) and recommended to take to the hum-box (pulpit) as better suited to him than cadging.
English Synonyms:—Autem; cackle tub; clack loft; cowards’ castle; gospel mill (also a church); wood.