rind
/ɹaɪnd/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.76 in modern English
5
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Example Sentences
- "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."
- ""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!"
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.