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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



... Meddoes answered, lighting a cigarette. "I heard that she had chucked her show at the French places and gone in for a reform all round. Sister's got married to that bounder Ferringhall." ...
— Anna the Adventuress • E. Phillips Oppenheim
... "A moral bounder, Lena. A slimy eel. Slips and wriggles out of things. You'll never hold him. You're not his ...
— The Best British Short Stories of 1922 • Edward J. O'Brien and John Cournos, editors
... of the associated architects of the new opera, who had been born a gentleman and looked the perfect bounder, sauntered over to examine the sketch. He was still red from the ...
— Between Friends • Robert W. Chambers
... stimulate all the emotions that could be excited by the most vicious French novel. Some of them, of course, throw off all pretense and openly ape the petit histoire d'un amour; but essentially all are alike. The heroine is a demimondaine in everything but her alleged virtue—the hero a young bounder whose better self restrains him just in time. A conventional marriage on the last page legalizes what would otherwise have been a liaison ...
— The "Goldfish" • Arthur Train
... the sinister question, the detective was exulting to himself: "Light at last! Now I know why this Broadway bounder was received into an exclusive crowd like this! Every last female in the bunch hoped to be the ...
— Murder at Bridge • Anne Austin


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