bounder

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
10
Words With Friends
13
Letters
7

Definition of bounder

5 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. Something that bounds or jumps.
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noun

  1. Something that bounds or jumps.
  2. (UK, dated)A dishonourable man; a cad.
    “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.
    “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, colloquial, obsolete)A four-wheeled type of dogcart or cabriolet.

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Etymology

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

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