rind en · NOUN · etymology 1
Pronunciation
- (Southern-England) audio
- /ɹaɪnd/
Etymology
From Middle English rind, rinde, from Old English rind and rinde (“treebark, crust”), from Proto-West Germanic *rindā, 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.
Meanings
- Tree bark.
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A hard, tough outer layer, particularly on food such as fruit, cheese, etc.
Thou canst not touch the freedom of my mind / With all thy charms, although this corporal rind / Thou hast immanacled.
1634 October 9 (first performance; Gregorian calendar), [John Milton], edited by H[enry] Lawes, A Maske Presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634: […] [Comus], London: […] [Augustine Matthews] for Hvmphrey Robinson, […], published 1637, →OCLC; reprinted as Comus: […] (Dodd, Mead & Company’s Facsimile Reprints of Rare Books; Literature Series; no. I), New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1903, →OCLC:Make sure you don't leave any of the rind on those lemons.
Sweetest nut hath sourest rind.
c. 1598–1600 (date written), William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:cheese rind; lemon rind; lime rind
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(figuratively, qualifier:usually "the", rare, uncountable) The gall, the crust, the insolence; often as "the immortal rind"
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!
1939, Roy Forster, Joyous Deliverance, London: Thornton Butterworth, p. 262"I'm hanged if I know how you've got the immortal rind to come at me with a yarn like this."
1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, →OCLC, page 218:“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.”
1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter XVIII, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC:[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.
2010, David Stubbs, Send Them Victorious: England's Path to Glory 2006-2010, O Books (Zero Books), p. 12April 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, …
1940, Amy Helen Bell (ed.), London Was Ours: Diaries and Memoirs of the London Blitz, 1940-1941, published 2002, Kingston, Ontario: Queen's University, p. 99
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
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| rinds | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Deriveds
immortal rind · rind gall · millrind · rindy · rindless · rind-oil spot · bacon rind · rind oil spot · pork rind · rind grafting
Relateds
Translations (61)
grc λέπυρον (hard outer layer of fruit, cheese) · no skall (hard outer layer of fruit, cheese) · fr croûte (hard outer layer of fruit, cheese) · it corteccia (tree bark) · mi kiri (hard outer layer of fruit, cheese) · gl tona (hard outer layer of fruit, cheese) · ru шку́рка (hard outer layer of fruit, cheese) · nl schil (hard outer layer of fruit, cheese) · fi kuori (hard outer layer of fruit, cheese) · no bark (hard outer layer of fruit, cheese) · hu héj (hard outer layer of fruit, cheese) · pl łupina (hard outer layer of fruit, cheese) · fr pelure (hard outer layer of fruit, cheese) · ca closca (hard outer layer of fruit, cheese) · cs kůra (tree bark) · pl kora (tree bark) · nl bast (hard outer layer of fruit, cheese) · de Rinde (hard outer layer of fruit, cheese) · ru ко́жица (hard outer layer of fruit, cheese) · bg кора (tree bark) · hu kéreg (tree bark) · ru ко́рка (hard outer layer of fruit, cheese) · pl skóra (hard outer layer of fruit, cheese) · es cáscara (hard outer layer of fruit, cheese) · ca escorça (hard outer layer of fruit, cheese) · it crosta (hard outer layer of fruit, cheese) · mi hiako (hard outer layer of fruit, cheese) · grc φλοιός (tree bark) · no skorpe (hard outer layer of fruit, cheese) · lt luoba (hard outer layer of fruit, cheese) · pt casca (hard outer layer of fruit, cheese) · lt žievelė (hard outer layer of fruit, cheese) · it buccia (hard outer layer of fruit, cheese) · tft ahi (tree bark) · ca cotna (hard outer layer of fruit, cheese) · da skal (hard outer layer of fruit, cheese) · pl skórka (hard outer layer of fruit, cheese) · lt pluta (hard outer layer of fruit, cheese) · lt žievė (hard outer layer of fruit, cheese) · ba ҡабыҡ (hard outer layer of fruit, cheese) · es corteza (tree bark) · gl casca (hard outer layer of fruit, cheese) · ru кожура́ (hard outer layer of fruit, cheese) · da svær (hard outer layer of fruit, cheese) · grc λέπος (hard outer layer of fruit, cheese) · gd cairt (hard outer layer of fruit, cheese) · da skorpe (hard outer layer of fruit, cheese) · ccc is̈hoopa (hard outer layer of fruit, cheese) · de Schwarte (hard outer layer of fruit, cheese) · cs kůra (hard outer layer of fruit, cheese) · fr couenne (hard outer layer of fruit, cheese) · mi peha (hard outer layer of fruit, cheese) · pdt Schal (hard outer layer of fruit, cheese) · enm rind (tree bark) · enm rind (hard outer layer of fruit, cheese) · no svor (hard outer layer of fruit, cheese) · la crusta (hard outer layer of fruit, cheese) · bg кора (hard outer layer of fruit, cheese) · sv skal (hard outer layer of fruit, cheese) · ca crosta (hard outer layer of fruit, cheese) · mi tapeha (hard outer layer of fruit, cheese)