humility forced upon someone, often under embarrassing conditions; humiliation.
2.
Obsolete. a pie made of the viscera and other inferior parts of deer or the like.
Idioms
3.
eat humble pie, to be forced to apologize humbly; suffer humiliation:
He had to eat humble pie and publicly admit his error.
Origin
1640-50; earlier phrase an umble pie, erroneous for a numble pie; see numbles
Examples from the web for humble pie
Now, humble pie is never a tasty dish to eat in public.
British Dictionary definitions for humble pie
humble pie
noun
1.
(formerly) a pie made from the heart, entrails, etc, of a deer
2.
eat humble pie, to behave or be forced to behave humbly; be humiliated
Word Origin
C17: earlier an umble pie, by mistaken word division from a numble pie, from numbles offal of a deer, from Old French nombles, ultimately from Latin lumbulus a little loin, from lumbus loin