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Bounder

noun, slang

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Noun
  1. 1
    Something that bounds or jumps.
  2. 2
    someone who bounds or leaps (as in competition) wordnet
  3. 3
    A dishonourable man; a cad. UK, dated

    "He marvelled anew that Ruth could have cared, as she certainly had, for this fellow. A bounder, and worse than a bounder."

  4. 4
    someone who is morally reprehensible wordnet
  5. 5
    A social climber.
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  1. 6
    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."

  2. 7
    A four-wheeled type of dogcart or cabriolet. UK, colloquial, obsolete

Etymology

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

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