Meaning of Bounder | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Something that bounds or jumps.
2. A dishonourable man; a cad.
   UK, dated
3. A social climber.
4. That which limits; a boundary.
5. A four-wheeled type of dogcart or cabriolet.
   UK, colloquial, obsolete

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Examples

“He marvelled anew that Ruth could have cared, as she certainly had, for this fellow. A bounder, and worse than a bounder.”

“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.”

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