bounder
nounEtymology From bound + -er. Sense 2 poss. from bandar, borrowed from Hindi बन्दर (bandar, “monkey”), via Indian English.
1
Something that bounds or jumps.
- He marvelled anew that Ruth could have cared, as she certainly had, for this fellow. A bounder, and worse than a bounder.1928, Agatha Christie, The Mystery of the Blue Train:
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.1638 Martin Fotherby (Iacob Blome: London) Atheomastix p.269
5
UK, Colloquial, Obsolete A four-wheeled type of dogcart or cabriolet.
- Derived terms
- bounderish, bounderism, boundling
- Related terms
- homeward bounder, homeward-bounder