Note: these 'words' (valid or invalid) are all the permutations of the word rind. These words are obtained by scrambling the letters in rind.
Definitions and meaning of rind
rind
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /ɹaɪnd/
Rhymes: -aɪnd
Etymology 1
From Middle Englishrind, rinde, from Old Englishrind 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 GermanRinde(“bark, rind”). related to Englishrand.
Noun
rind (pluralrinds)
tree bark
A hard, tough outer layer, particularly on food such as fruit, cheese, etc
(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
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See also
peel
skin
Verb
rind (third-person singular simple presentrinds, present participlerinding, simple past and past participlerinded)
(transitive) To remove the rind from.
Etymology 2
Cognate with Flemish rijne, Low German ryn.
Alternative forms
rynd
rine
Noun
rind (pluralrinds)
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 Finnishrinta. See Proto-Finnic*rinta.
Noun
rind (genitiverinna, partitiverinda)
breast
Declension
Ludian
Etymology
From Proto-Finnic*rinta. Cognates include Finnishrinta.
Noun
rind
breast
Middle English
Alternative forms
rinde, rynd, rynde, ryn
Etymology
From Old Englishrind, rinde.
Pronunciation
(from OE rind) IPA(key): /riːnd/, /rind/
(from OE rinde) IPA(key): /ˈriːnd(ə)/, /ˈrind(ə)/
Noun
rind (pluralrindes)
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.)