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boundling en · NOUN · etymology 1

Etymology

From bound + -ling.

Meanings

  1. (nonstandard, rare) One who is bound.
    • The astronauts in Sky Lab made some films of acrobatics in a zero-gravity environment that amazed us earth-boundlings. 1993, Rodney Cole, So you want to take physics:
    • […] sing old songs and have always had the desire to make love to middle-aged women in the backseat of old cars. But most of all, I like old airplanes. In some strange way they open up a door to the past that is closed to earth boundlings. 2002, Karl Finatzer, Bushpilots tales:
    • Always, always look in the darkest thickets for the boundlings, a curious myth in which babies are rescued from their light covering of troubles if found in time. 1991, Douglas Oliver, Three variations on the theme of harm:

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boundling en · NOUN · etymology 2

Etymology

From bounder + -ling.

Meanings

  1. (humorous, nonce-word) A little bounder.
    • And we were starting to hook ourselves on to the tail end of the dwindling procession, quite on friendly terms, when to my horror that young English cadlet — or boundling, which you will — strolled calmly out in front of us, […] 1909, Charles Norris Williamson, Alice Muriel Williamson, Set in silver:

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