rind
English
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Middle English rind, rinde, from Old English rind and rinde (“treebark, crust”), from Proto-Germanic *rindō, *rindǭ (“crust, rind”), from Proto-Indo-European *rem- (“to come to rest, support or prop oneself”). Cognate with German Rinde (“bark, rind”). related to English rand.
Noun
rind (plural rinds)
- tree bark
- A hard, tough outer layer, particularly on food such as fruit, cheese, etc
- (Can we date this quote by William Shakespeare and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
- Sweetest nut hath sourest rind.
- (Can we date this quote by John Milton and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
- Thou canst not touch the freedom of my mind / With all thy charms, although this corporal rind / Thou hast immanacled.
- (Can we date this quote by William Shakespeare and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
- (figuratively, uncountable, rare, usually "the") The gall, the crust, the insolence; often as "the immortal rind"
- 1939, Roy Forster, Joyous Deliverance, London: Thornton Butterworth, p. 262:
- Taking the money from a man when he's got his pants down. What are you, a doctor or a tailor's tout? Thirty bucks! If I figured you'd have the rind to touch me that much I'd have lashed them up with a pair of braces!
- 1940, Amy Helen Bell (ed.), London Was Ours: Diaries and Memoirs of the London Blitz, 1940-1941, published 2002, Kingston, Ontario: Queen's University, →ISBN, p. 99:
- April 9, 1940. Then one of our RAF customers had the rind to suggest that ‘you women ought to give up smoking for the duration you know’. This, when they have the alternative of smoking pipes which is not open to us, [...]
- 1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter XVIII, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC:
- “Oh?” she said. “So you have decided to revise my guest list for me? You have the nerve, the – the –” I saw she needed helping out. “Audacity,” I said, throwing her the line. “The audacity to dictate to me who I shall have in my house.” It should have been “whom”, but I let it go. “You have the –” “Crust.” “– the immortal rind,” she amended, and I had to admit it was stronger, “to tell me whom” – she got it right that time – “I may entertain at Brinkley Court and who” – wrong again – “I may not.”
- 2010, David Stubbs, Send Them Victorious: England's Path to Glory 2006-2010, O Books (Zero Books), →ISBN, p. 12:
- [About a football match.] Come the second half and the Trinidadians and Tobagans had the immortal rind to make excursions into the England half, the spectacle of which was deeply offensive to those whose memories extend to those happy days before 1962, when independence was unwisely conferred on this archipelago. Back in those days, a game like this would have presented little anxiety. Any goals scored by the Trinidadians, or Tobagans for that matter, would have been instantly become the property of the Crown and therefore added to England's tally. Glad times – 22 men working together for a common aim. However, such is the insolence of the modern age that these dark fellows dared approach the England penalty box, forelocks untugged, as if demanding instant entry to the Garrick club without having been put up by existing members.
- 1939, Roy Forster, Joyous Deliverance, London: Thornton Butterworth, p. 262:
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Verb
rind (third-person singular simple present rinds, present participle rinding, simple past and past participle rinded)
- (transitive) To remove the rind from.
Etymology 2
Cognate with Flemish rijne, Low German ryn.
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Noun
rind (plural rinds)
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Estonian
Etymology
Of Finno-Samic origin. Cognate with Finnish rinta. Alternatively of Germanic origin, from Proto-Norse *strinða-. Compare Old Norse strind (“border, side, land”) and Norwegian strind (“slice, line, row”). This is unlikely due to the difference in meaning.
Noun
rind (genitive rinna, partitive rinda)
Declension
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Kurdish
Adjective
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Ludian
Etymology
Noun
rind
Middle English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Old English rind, rinde, from Proto-Germanic *rindō, *rindǭ.
Pronunciation
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Noun
rind (plural rindes)
- The bark of a tree (often used in medicine).
- A part, section or flake of bark.
- The exterior layer of a fruit or nut (often used in medicine).
- (rare) An animal's hard outer coating (e.g. the carapace of an insect.)
- (rare) A scab; a protective coating over a wound.
- (rare, figurative) Something's surface signification.
Descendants
References
- “rī̆nd(e, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-08-24.
Old English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *rindǭ.
Pronunciation
Noun
rind f
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Old High German
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Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *hrinþaz, whence also Old English hrīþer
Noun
rind n
Descendants
- Middle High German: rint
Veps
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Noun
rind
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