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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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muscle-bound
outer boundary
outward-bound
rebound
spell-bound
upper bound
weather-bound
well-bound


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"Bounder" Quotes from Famous Books



... the fourth time you've called me a bounder since we came in. What do you mean by ...
— Charles Rex • Ethel M. Dell
... "Why, everything's wrong! The bounder ought to be in jail instead of giving dinner-parties. Imagine Doris eating ...
— The Postmaster's Daughter • Louis Tracy
... Eros"[26] is frenzied fiction again; amnesia, drunkenness, white slavery, sex, are its mingled themes. There is a pretty picture, recognizable in any smart community, of a witty woman of fashion, and a full-length portrait of a bounder. "The Yellow Fay," Saltus's cliche for the Demon Rum, was the original title of this "Fifth Avenue Incident." Romance and Realism consort lovingly together in its pages. There is an unforgetable passage descriptive of a young man ridding ...
— The Merry-Go-Round • Carl Van Vechten
... between us bearing coffee and Benedictine, and I was tasting the delights of a tenpenny cigar. My uncle smoked a similar cigar in an habituated manner, and he looked energetic and knowing and luxurious and most unexpectedly a little bounder, round the end of it. It was just a trivial flaw upon our swagger, perhaps that we both were clear our cigars had to be "mild." He got obliquely across the spaces of his great armchair so as to incline confidentially to my ear, he curled up his little legs, and I, in my longer way, ...
— Tono Bungay • H. G. Wells
... done, and it suited Teuta and me down to the ground. I could see that the dear girl was agitated about something, so thought it would be best for her to be quiet, and not worried with being civil to the Bounder. Though he is my cousin, I can't think of him as anything else. The Voivode and I had certain matters to attend to arising out of the meeting of the Council, and when we were through the night was closing in. When I saw Teuta in our own rooms she ...
— The Lady of the Shroud • Bram Stoker


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