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Bounder   /bˈaʊndər/   Listen
Bounder

noun
1.
Someone who is morally reprehensible.  Synonyms: blackguard, cad, dog, heel, hound.
2.
Someone who bounds or leaps (as in competition).  Synonym: leaper.


Bound

adjective
1.
Confined by bonds.
2.
Held with another element, substance or material in chemical or physical union.
3.
Secured with a cover or binding; often used as a combining form.  "Leather-bound volumes"
4.
(usually followed by 'to') governed by fate.  Synonym: destined.  "An old house destined to be demolished" , "He is destined to be famous"
5.
Covered or wrapped with a bandage.  Synonym: bandaged.  "An injury bound in fresh gauze"
6.
Headed or intending to head in a certain direction; often used as a combining form as in 'college-bound students'.  Synonym: destined.  "A flight destined for New York"
7.
Bound by an oath.
8.
Bound by contract.  Synonyms: apprenticed, articled, indentured.
9.
Confined in the bowels.



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"Bounder" Quotes from Famous Books



... on as we are, you would lose what little faith you may still have in me. I have not always been able to conceal my feelings. You do not care as I do,—and I have been pretty much of a rotter in showing you just how I feel from time to time,—an ordinary bounder, and God knows I hate the word,—so there's nothing more I can say without distressing and offending you. I want you to feel perfectly secure so far as I am concerned. We are out here alone in the night. If I were ...
— West Wind Drift • George Barr McCutcheon
... who was hovering near, dressed so carefully that he looked more of a foxy, neat bounder than ever. "I have noticed that some of the brutes have been sneaking round ...
— Red Money • Fergus Hume
... slang of the juniors of the middle class, it is well-nigh past description and past bearing. The dog-collared, tight-coated, horsey youth learns all the cant phrases from cheap sporting prints, and he has an idea that to call a man a "bally bounder" is quite a ducal thing to do. His hideous cackle sounds in railway-carriages, or on breezy piers by the pure sea, or in suburban roads. From the time when he gabbles over his game of Nap in the train until his last villainous howl pollutes the night, he lives, moves, and has his ...
— The Ethics of Drink and Other Social Questions - Joints In Our Social Armour • James Runciman
... the horse-dealer. "Why, everything's wrong! The bounder ought to be in jail instead of giving dinner-parties. Imagine ...
— The Postmaster's Daughter • Louis Tracy
... the outward-bounder, perhaps, has letters on board; at any rate, she will be sure to let her have some papers of a date a year or two later than the last one on her blurred and thumb-worn files. And in return for that courtesy, the outward-bound ...
— Moby Dick; or The Whale • Herman Melville
... bloomers in under a minute I What could she have thought of him? The sun ceased to shine. What sort of an utter outsider could she have considered him? An east wind sprang up. What kind of a Cockney bounder and cad could she have taken him for? The sea turned to an oily grey; and George, rising, strode back in the direction of his hotel in a mood that made him forget that he had brown ...
— The Man Upstairs and Other Stories • P. G. Wodehouse


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