bounder

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bounder

Rhymes with -aʊndə(ɹ)

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From bound + -er.

Sense 2 poss. from bandar, borrowed from Hindi बन्दर (bandar, “monkey”), via Indian English.

noun bounders · boundure

Something that bounds or jumps.
UK, dated A dishonourable man; a cad. The outsider! The outsider! And they called him a bounder! How much more bounderish and assertive Clifford looked! How much stupider!
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.
UK, colloquial, obsolete A four-wheeled type of dogcart or cabriolet.

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@misc{bounder_2026,
  title = {bounder},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/bounder},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}