bounder

English

Alternative forms

• boundure

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -aʊndə(ɹ)

Noun

bounder (plural bounders)

1. Something that bounds or jumps.
2. (UK, dated) A dishonourable man; a cad.
   • 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.

3. A social climber.
4. 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.

5. (UK, obsolete, colloquial) A four-wheeled type of dogcart or cabriolet.

Derived terms

• bounderish
• bounderism
• boundling

Translations

dishonourable man — see cad

See also

• homeward bounder,homeward-bounder

Anagrams

• rebound, unbored, unrobed