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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



... knowing how to fall in love with a good girl. They have not been trained to it. It is not for their scrambled intellects to discriminate between the chorus-girl brand of attack and the subtle wooing of a gentlewoman. They can't analyse—they can't feel! And this insipid, egotistical little bounder is actually sitting there and asking me to help him with the girl I love! Good Lord, what next?" He surveyed the eager Ulstervelt in the most irritating manner, finally laughing outright in his face. The very thought of him as Connie's accepted lover! She, the adorable, the splendid, the unapproachable! ...
— The Husbands of Edith • George Barr McCutcheon
... called the kitten Ra, or Toth, or Tum, or something; and when Lone Sahib confessed that the first one had, at his most misguided instance, been drowned by the sweeper, they said consolingly that in his next life he would be a 'bounder,' and not even a 'rounder' of the lowest grade. These words may not be quite correct, but they accurately express the sense of ...
— Soldiers Three • Rudyard Kipling
... to reveal all this, but Barty wished it. Forty years ago such things did not seem so horrible as they would now, and the word "bounder" had not been invented. ...
— The Martian • George Du Maurier
... men enough to say pleasant things to me, and that what I want is a friend who won't be afraid to say disagreeable ones when I need them? Sometimes I have fancied you might be that friend—I don't know why, except that you are neither a prig nor a bounder, and that I shouldn't have to pretend with you or be on my guard against you." Her voice had dropped to a note of seriousness, and she sat gazing up at him with the troubled gravity of ...
— House of Mirth • Edith Wharton


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