An abject toady, malignant as he is base; always boasting of his ʹumble birth, ʹumble position, ʹumble abode, and ʹumble calling. (Dickens: David Copperfield.)
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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