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bounder

noun

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Wiktionary

noun

Etymology: From bound + -er. Sense 2 poss. from bandar, borrowed from Hindi बन्दर (bandar, “monkey”), via Indian English.

  1. Something that bounds or jumps.
  2. 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.

  3. A social climber.
  4. 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.

  5. A four-wheeled type of dogcart or cabriolet.