bounder
noun
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noun
Etymology: From bound + -er. Sense 2 poss. from bandar, borrowed from Hindi बन्दर (bandar, “monkey”), via Indian English.
- Something that bounds or jumps.
- 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.”
- A social climber.
- 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.”
- A four-wheeled type of dogcart or cabriolet.