bounder en · NOUN
Etymology
From bound + -er. Sense 2 poss. from bandar, borrowed from Hindi बन्दर (bandar, “monkey”), via Indian English.
Meanings
- Something that bounds or jumps.
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(UK, dated) A dishonourable man; a cad.
He marvelled anew that Ruth could have cared, as she certainly had, for this fellow. A bounder, and worse than a bounder.
1928, Agatha Christie, The Mystery of the Blue Train:
- A social climber.
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That which limits; a boundary.
Let the mountaine Pyrenaeus diuide the French, and Spaniards: and the wildernesse of Sand the Aethiopians, from Aegyptians. And in like manner also be all other Kingdomes: they are bound within their bounders, as it were in bands; and shut-vp within their limits, as it were in prison.
1638 Martin Fotherby (Iacob Blome: London) Atheomastix p.269
- (UK, colloquial, obsolete) A four-wheeled type of dogcart or cabriolet.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| bounders | Number=Plur | lexicographic | |
| boundure | alternative | lexicographic |
Deriveds
bounderism · bounderish · boundling