bounder

plural bounders · alternative boundure

1. Something that bounds or jumps.
2. UKdatedA dishonourable man; a cad.

   He marvelled anew that Ruth could have cared, as she certainly had, for this fellow. A bounder, and worse than a bounder.

   1928, Agatha Christie, The Mystery of the Blue Train

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   The outsider! The outsider! And they called him a bounder! How much more bounderish and assertive Clifford looked! How much stupider!

   1928, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, chapter III, in Lady Chatterley’s Lover, [Germany?]: Privately printed, →OCLC

   "I don't think I can stand that young man," said Clifford at lunch. "Why?" asked Connie. "He's such a bounder underneath his veneer ... just waiting to bounce us." "I think people have been so unkind to him," said Connie.

   1928, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, chapter III, in Lady Chatterley’s Lover, [Germany?]: Privately printed, →OCLC

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.

   1638 Martin Fotherby (Iacob Blome: London) Atheomastix p.269

5. UKcolloquialobsoleteA four-wheeled type of dogcart or cabriolet.