rind
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
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.
Inflected forms:
form: rinds
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: rinds
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: rinding
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: rinded
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: rinded
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Tree bark.
pos: noun
gloss: A hard, tough outer layer, particularly on food such as fruit, cheese, etc.
pos: noun
examples: cheese rind; lemon rind; lime rind
Make sure you don't leave any of the rind on those lemons.
Sweetest nut hath sourest rind.
Thou canst not touch the freedom of my mind / With all thy charms, although this corporal rind / Thou hast immanacled.
gloss: The gall, the crust, the insolence; often as "the immortal rind"
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
rare
uncountable
examples: "I'm hanged if I know how you've got the immortal rind to come at me with a yarn like this."
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!
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, …
“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.”
[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.
gloss: To remove the rind from.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Related words: peel
skin
Derived words: bacon rind
immortal rind
millrind
pork rind
rind gall
rind grafting
rindless
rind-oil spot
rind oil spot
rindy
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