different between rind vs rindy

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a?nd/
• Rhymes: -a?nd

Etymology 1

From Middle English rind, rinde, from Old English rind and rinde (“treebark, crust”), from Proto-Germanic *rind?, *rind? (“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)

1. tree bark
2. A hard, tough outer layer, particularly on food such as fruit, cheese, etc
3. (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, [...]

   • 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.

Derived terms

• immortal rind
• pork rind

Translations

See also

• peel
• skin

Verb

rind (third-person singular simple present rinds, present participle rinding, simple past and past participle rinded)

1. (transitive) To remove the rind from.

Etymology 2

Cognate with Flemish rijne, Low German ryn.

Alternative forms

• rynd
• rine

Noun

rind (plural rinds)

1. An iron support fitting used on the upper millstone of a grist mill.

Translations

Anagrams

• Drin, NDRI

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)

1. breast

Declension

Ludian

Etymology

Related to Finnish rinta.

Noun

rind

1. breast

Middle English

Alternative forms

• rinde, rynd, rynde, ryn

Etymology

From Old English rind, rinde, from Proto-Germanic *rind?, *rind?.

Pronunciation

• (from OE rind) IPA^(key): /ri?nd/, /rind/
• (from OE rinde) IPA^(key): /?ri?nd(?)/, /?rind(?)/

Noun

rind (plural rindes)

2. The bark of a tree (often used in medicine).
3. A part, section or flake of bark.
4. The exterior layer of a fruit or nut (often used in medicine).
5. (rare) An animal's hard outer coating (e.g. the carapace of an insect.)
6. (rare) A scab; a protective coating over a wound.
7. (rare, figuratively) Something's surface signification.

Descendants

• English: rind
• Scots: rind, reen, reind

References

• “r??nd(e, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-08-24.

Northern Kurdish

Adjective

rind (comparative rindtir, superlative rindtirîn)

1. good
2. beautiful

Derived terms

• rindî

Old English

Alternative forms

• rinde

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *rind?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /rind/

Noun

rind f

1. bark (of a tree)
2. crust, rind

Declension

Descendants

• Middle English: rind, rinde, rynd, rynde, ryn
  • English: rind
  • Scots: rind, reen, reind

Old High German

Alternative forms

• hrind

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *hrinþaz, whence also Old English hr?þer

Noun

rind n

1. cattle

Descendants

• Middle High German: rint
  • Alemannic German: Rind
  • Central Franconian: Rend, Renk
  • German: Rind
  • Hunsrik: Rind
  • Luxembourgish: Rand
  • Vilamovian: rynd

Veps

Etymology

Related to Finnish rinta.

Noun

rind

1. collar

English

Etymology

rind +? -y

Adjective

rindy (comparative more rindy, superlative most rindy)

1. Having a rind or skin.

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Anagrams

• Nydri