different between rustic vs hind

English

Alternative forms

• (obsolete) rustick, rusticke, rustique

Etymology

From Latin r?sticus. Doublet of roister.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???st?k/
• Rhymes: -?st?k

Adjective

rustic (comparative more rustic, superlative most rustic)

1. Country-styled or pastoral; rural.
   • 1800, William Wordsworth, We are Seven

     She had a rustic, woodland air.

   • late 1700s — Robert Burns, Behold, My Love, How Green the Groves

     The Princely revel may survey
     Our rustic dance wi' scorn.

   • 1818 — Mary Shelley, Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus Ch. I

     With his permission my mother prevailed on her rustic guardians to yield their charge to her. They were fond of the sweet orphan. Her presence had seemed a blessing to them, but it would be unfair to her to keep her in poverty and want when Providence afforded her such powerful protection.

   • 1820 — Washington Irving, Rural Life in England in The Sketchbook of Geoffrey Crayon

     To this mingling of cultivated and rustic society may also be attributed the rural feeling that runs through British literature.

2. Unfinished or roughly finished.

3. Crude, rough.

4. Simple; artless; unaffected.
   • 1704, Alexander Pope, A Discourse on Pastoral Poetry

     the manners not too polite nor too rustic

Derived terms

• rustic moth
• rustic work
• rusticity

Translations

Noun

rustic (plural rustics)

1. A (sometimes unsophisticated) person from a rural area.
   • 1901, Edmund Selous, Bird Watching, p. 226

     The cause of these stampedes was generally undiscoverable; but sometimes, when the birds stayed some time down on the water, the figure of a rustic would at length appear, walking behind a hedge, along a path bounding the little meadow.

   • 1906, Arthur Conan Doyle, Sir Nigel, Ch IX

     The King looked at the motionless figure, at the little crowd of hushed expectant rustics beyond the bridge, and finally at the face of Chandos, which shone with amusement.

   • 1927-29, Mahatma Gandhi, An Autobiography or The Story of my Experiments with Truth, Part V, The Stain of Indigo, translated 1940 by Mahadev Desai

     Thus this ignorant, unsophisticated but resolute agriculturist captured me. So early in 1917, we left Calcutta for Champaran, looking just like fellow rustics.

2. A noctuoid moth.
3. Any of various nymphalid butterflies having brown and orange wings, especially Cupha erymanthis.

Translations

Anagrams

• Citrus, Curtis, Turcis, citrus, rictus

Romanian

Etymology

From French rustique, from Latin rusticus.

Adjective

rustic m or n (feminine singular rustic?, masculine plural rustici, feminine and neuter plural rustice)

1. rustic

Declension

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ha?nd/
• Rhymes: -a?nd

Etymology 1

From Middle English hinde, from Old English hindan (“at the rear, from behind”), Proto-Germanic *hinder (“behind, beyond”), from Proto-Indo-European *?em-ta- (“down, below, with, far, along, against”), from *?óm (“beside, near, by, with”). Cognate with Gothic ???????????????????????????? (hindana, “from beyond”), Old Norse hindr (“obstacle”), Old Norse handan (“from that side, beyond”), Old High German hintana (“behind”), Old English hinder (“behind, back, in the farthest part, down”), Latin contra (“in return, against”). More at hinder, contrary.

Adjective

hind (comparative hinder, superlative hindmost)

1. Located at the rear (most often said of animals' body parts).
   • 1918, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Land That Time Forgot Chapter V

     When it had advanced from the wood, it hopped much after the fashion of a kangaroo, using its hind feet and tail to propel it, and when it stood erect, it sat upon its tail.

Derived terms

• hind leg
• hindlook
• hindsight

Translations

Etymology 2

Wikispecies From Middle English hind, hinde, hynde, from Old English hind, from Proto-Germanic *hind?, *hindiz, from a formation on Proto-Indo-European *?em- (“hornless”). Cognate with Dutch hinde, German Hinde, Danish hind.

Noun

hind (plural hinds)

1. A female deer, especially a red deer at least two years old.
2. A spotted food fish of the genus Epinephelus.

Synonyms

• (female deer): doe

Derived terms

• hindberry

Translations

Etymology 3

From Old English h?(?)na, genitive plural of h??a (“servant, family member”), in the phrase h?na fæder ‘paterfamilias’. The -d is a later addition (compare sound). Compare Old Frisian hinde (“servant”).

Noun

hind (plural hinds)

1. (archaic) A servant, especially an agricultural labourer.
   • 1827, Maria Elizabeth Budden, Nina, An Icelandic Tale, page 41:

     The peaceful tenour of Nina's life was interrupted one morning by the mysterious looks and whisperings of her maids and hinds.

   • 1931, Pearl S. Buck, The Good Earth:

     that my brother can sit at leisure in a seat and learn something and I must work like a hind, who am your son as well as he!

For more quotations using this term, see Citations:hind.

Anagrams

• Dinh

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse hind, from Proto-Germanic.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hen?/, [hen?]

Noun

hind c (singular definite hinden, plural indefinite hinder or hinde)

1. hind (female deer)

Inflection

Estonian

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *hinta. Cognate with Finnish hinta.

Noun

hind (genitive hinna, partitive hinda)

1. price

Declension

Faroese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /h?nt/

Etymology 1

Noun

hind f (genitive singular hindar, plural hindir)

1. membrane

Declension

Synonyms

• hinna

Etymology 2

From Old Norse hind, from Proto-Germanic.

Noun

hind f (genitive singular hindar, plural hindir)

1. hind (female deer)

Declension

Derived terms

• hindber

Icelandic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /h?nt/
• Rhymes: -?nt

Noun

hind f (genitive singular hindar, nominative plural hindir)

1. female deer, hind

Declension

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *hind?, *hindiz, whence also Old High German hinta, Old Norse hind.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /xind/, [hind]

Noun

hind f

1. hind

Declension

Descendants

• Middle English: hind, hinde, hynde
  • Scots: hynde, hynd, hind
  • English: hind

References

• Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) , “hind”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Scots

Alternative forms

• hynd, hynde, hyne, hin, hine

Etymology

From Early Scots hyne (“stripling”), from Northumbrian Old English h??u or h??an (“members of a household”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?h?in(d)/
• (Hawick) IPA^(key): /?h?nd/

Noun

hind (plural hinds)

1. (archaic) A skilled labourer on a farm, especially a ploughman. In Southern Scotland, specifically a married skilled farmworker given housing in a cottage and often given special privileges in addition to his wages. Occasionally a derogatory term.

Derived terms

• hindin (“the act of being a hind”)
• hindish (“to be like a hind; rustic”)

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Swedish hind, cognate with Old High German hinta, German Hinde, English hind.

Noun

hind c

1. a doe, a hind; the female of deer

   skygg som en hind

   shy as a doe

Declension

References

• hind in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• hind in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)