Boundling

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    One who is bound. nonstandard, rare

    "Always, always look in the darkest thickets for the boundlings, a curious myth in which babies are rescued from their light covering of troubles if found in time."

  2. 2
    A little bounder. humorous, nonce-word

    "And we were starting to hook ourselves on to the tail end of the dwindling procession, quite on friendly terms, when to my horror that young English cadlet — or boundling, which you will — strolled calmly out in front of us, […]"

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"Always, always look in the darkest thickets for the boundlings, a curious myth in which babies are rescued from their light covering of troubles if found in time."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From bound + -ling.

Etymology 2

From bounder + -ling.

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