bounder

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Something that bounds or jumps.
  2. A dishonourable man; a cad. UK,dated
    — He marvelled anew that Ruth could have cared, as she certainly had, for this fellow. A bounder, and worse than a bounder.
  3. A social climber.
  4. That which limits; a boundary.
    — 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.
  5. A four-wheeled type of dogcart or cabriolet. UK,colloquial,obsolete

词形变化

bounders plural boundure alternative

词汇关系

衍生词
bounderish bounderism boundling
相关词
homeward bounder homeward-bounder

词源

From bound + -er.
Sense 2 poss. from bandar, borrowed from Hindi बन्दर (bandar, “monkey”), via Indian English.
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