bounder

English

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

bounder (plural bounders)

Something that bounds or jumps.
(UK, dated) A dishonourable man; a cad.
- 1928, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, chapter III, in Lady Chatterley’s Lover, [Germany?]: Privately printed, →OCLC:
  The outsider! The outsider! And they called him a bounder! How much more bounderish and assertive Clifford looked! How much stupider!
- 1928, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, chapter III, in Lady Chatterley’s Lover, [Germany?]: Privately printed, →OCLC:
  "I don't think I can stand that young man," said Clifford at lunch.
  "Why?" asked Connie.
  "He's such a bounder underneath his veneer ... just waiting to bounce us."
  "I think people have been so unkind to him," said Connie.
- 1928, Agatha Christie, The Mystery of the Blue Train:
  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.
- 1638 Martin Fotherby (Iacob Blome: London) Atheomastix p.269:
  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.
(UK, obsolete, colloquial) A four-wheeled type of dogcart or cabriolet.

dishonourable man — see cad