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Bounder definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

BOUND'ER, n. One that limits; a boundary.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: someone who is morally reprehensible; "you dirty dog" [syn: cad, bounder, blackguard, dog, hound, heel]
2: someone who bounds or leaps (as in competition) [syn: bounder, leaper]

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: 1505 1. one that bounds 2. a man of objectionable social behavior ; cad • bounderish adjective

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. colloq. or joc. a cad; an ill-bred person.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Bounder Bound"er (bound"[~e]r), n. One who, or that which, limits; a boundary. --Sir T. Herbert.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(bounders) If you call a man a bounder, you mean he behaves in an unkind, deceitful, or selfish way. (BRIT OLD-FASHIONED) = cad N-COUNT

Moby Thesaurus

Babbitt, Philistine, arriviste, boor, bourgeois, cad, churl, clown, cur, epicier, groundling, guttersnipe, hooligan, ill-bred fellow, looby, lout, low fellow, mucker, nouveau riche, parvenu, peasant, ribald, rotter, rough, roughneck, rowdy, ruffian, upstart, vulgarian, vulgarist, yokel