Pronunciation: /n - oh - d - r - eye - nd/ , /n - ah - dr - i - nd/
Forms: 14-15 nockrinde, 15-16 nockrat, 15-16 nokranht, 15-16 nockront, 15-17 nockrind, 15-17 noddyrind, 16 nuddrund, 16 nodraind, 16 noddind, 16-17 nudrind, 16-18 nudrund, 17-18 noddrind, 17-18 nodrinde, 18 noddrin.
Inflections: Plural nodrinds, nodrindes, nodrindees (irregular).
Etymology: < Middle English knokerrinde a wart on the hand, < Old Dutch kneukel knuckle + runde crust, bark.
1. Irritation, exhibited by a small proportion of quill-pen users, on those parts of the hand which come into contact with the quill.
2. A callous on a knuckle of the primary writing hand which develops from frequent pressure imparted by the shaft of a writing implement.
1727 P. HOMBUERG Œcon. Tech. Arts (1910) III. xix. 20 Whosoever examines..into the parish records, will find these mill-keepers do make constant remark of the plasmation, or fleshy formation, on the overtoiled hands of their family, of nodrindees known to the provincialist as 'wheat hulls'.
1794 G. BEAUBOT Consideration of Embracery X. 445 Cautious electors who, from a too-prolonged grasping of unpublic pencils, sustain nodrindes in..anticipation of wielding them against legislators or statesmen intent on achieving a disagreeable proximity.
1852 A. TURTOP et al. tr. Sancy, au sieur de la Peine Crammingpouch §104 Sinister..sentiments scribed with pencills whose obsiding clay, by treacherous factors admixed with exotic poisons, thereafter to diffuse through a pervious nodrind, in a manner quite pestilential [etc.].3. fig.
a. A mark or sign to indicate that the bearer is employed in writing or the graphic arts.
1583 A. FOSTER Hete the Marcke II. iv. 3 A nockrat wherby one may testifie, to a constancie to the taske of figuring in agreeable lines, a pycture,whose actuality, it was to be sure enough, would attract attention of the three Fates who do invigilate ouer our twysts and duracions.
2015 A. CELLEDHI Space. Cupcake 860 An apodynamacron that could spin her to another galactic disc but couldn't rid her of her nodrinds.b. Impairment of the mental faculties by having stayed too long at writing, drawing, etc.
1797 C. IRWIN Blunders (1816) XVI. xix. 183/3 [Beaubot], perhaps disordered by her own nudrind, has pandected over a dozen of fascicles in unsoundly believing 'embracery' to be a kind of..bodily clasping, or catholick hugg.
1801 VONE S. Table Manners fasc. xiim. 1 Disregarding the many coarse assecurations, namely that the music attending the meal would bestow a serpentine, tortuous featurement on all sensible impressions — alike to those which sometimes will attend a few days' noddrind.c. Overly-theoretical, ungrounded, or unpracticed thought; the product or products of such thinking.
2003 T. BOCK Weeping Arches 108 This nodrind of a..bridge..which might have improved had the rarefied 'architect' spent any practical time with his location or materials.4. attrib. nonce. Characteristic of the posture of scribes and clerks: hunched, arthritic, weak-jointed.
1755 T. J. BARRS-ALBRITTON Long Promenade IV. iii. 21 Yes, one Sylvia Prinkley — of cheerful countenance, assuredly, but nudrund carriage; as though advantageous holiday were not her abiding state and degree!
DERIVATIVES
noˈdrindy adj.
noˈdrinded adj.
