bounder
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[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From bound + -er.
Sense 2 poss. from bandar, borrowed from Hindi बन्दर (bandar, “monkey”), via Indian English.
Pronunciation
[edit]- Rhymes: -aʊndə(ɹ)
Noun
[edit]bounder (plural bounders)
- Something that bounds or jumps.
- (UK, dated) A dishonourable man; a cad.
- 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.
- 1638 Martin Fotherby (Iacob Blome: London) Atheomastix p.269:
- (UK, obsolete, colloquial) A four-wheeled type of dogcart or cabriolet.
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]dishonourable man — see cad
See also
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- English terms suffixed with -er (agent noun)
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