Definizione monolingua

rind

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 hes got his pants down. What are you, a doctor or a tailors tout? Thirty bucks! If I figured youd have the rind to touch me that much Id 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: Queens University, ISBN 9780612732810, 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, [...]

   • 1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter XVIII:

     “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.”

   • 2010, David Stubbs, Send Them Victorious: Englands Path to Glory 2006-2010, O Books (Zero Books), ISBN 9781846944574, 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 Englands 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.

rind

1. good
2. beautiful

Definizione dizionario rind

	buccia
	hard outer layer of fruit, cheese

	crosta
	hard outer layer of fruit, cheese

corteccia

cotenna

guscio

pelle

scorza

Altri significati:

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 "

tree bark

investment (in the sense of outer layer)

skin (of a fruit)

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