Meaning of boundling | Babel Free

Definitions

1. One who is bound.
   nonstandard, rare
2. A little bounder.
   humorous, nonce-word

Examples

“Always, always look⟳ in the darkest thickets for the boundlings, a curious myth in which babies are rescued from their light⟳ covering of troubles if found in time.”

“The astronauts in Sky Lab made some films of acrobatics in a zero-gravity environment that amazed us earth-boundlings.”

“[…] sing⟳ old songs and have⟳ always had the desire to make⟳ love⟳ to middle-aged women in the backseat of old cars. But most of all, I like⟳ old airplanes. In some strange way they open⟳ up a door to the past that is closed to earth boundlings.”

“And we were starting to hook ourselves on to the tail end⟳ of the dwindling procession, quite on friendly terms, when to my horror that young English cadlet — or boundling, which you will — strolled calmly out in front of us, […]”

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