bounder
Noun
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Noun
bounder (plural bounders)
- Something that bounds or jumps.
- (UK, dated) A dishonourable man; a cad.
- A social climber.
- That which limits; a boundary.
- 1638 Martin Fotherby (Iacob Blome: London) [http://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo/A01093.0001.001/1:15.7?rgn=div2;view=fulltext 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.
- 1638 Martin Fotherby (Iacob Blome: London) [http://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo/A01093.0001.001/1:15.7?rgn=div2;view=fulltext Atheomastix p.269]:
- (UK, obsolete, colloquial) A four-wheeled type of dogcart or cabriolet
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