bounderish
adjEtymology From bounder + -ish.
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Pertaining to or having the characteristics of a bounder; loutish; boorish.
- Michaelis was the last word in what was caddish and bounderish.1928, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, chapter III, in Lady Chatterley’s Lover, [Germany?]: Privately printed, →OCLC:
- In Powell's war, only the rotters flourish—notably Kenneth Widmerpool, whose humorless egomania and bounderish one-upmanship have won him critical status as one of the great comic creations of modern English fiction.1967 March 3, "The War of Total Paper" (book review of The Soldier's Art by Anthony Powell), Time
- Related terms
- bounderishly, bounderishness