bounderish

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adjective

Pertaining to or having the characteristics of a bounder; loutish; boorish.

Scrabble 16

Meanings

adjectivebounderish (comparative more bounderish, superlative most bounderish)

comparative more bounderish · superlative most bounderish

  1. Pertaining to or having the characteristics of a bounder; loutish; boorish.

    Michaelis was the last word in what was caddish and bounderish.

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

    In Powell's war, only the rotters flourish—notably Kenneth Widmerpool, whose humorless egomania and bounderish one-upmanship have won him critical status as one of the great comic creations of modern English fiction.

    1967 March 3, "The War of Total Paper" (book review of The Soldier's Art by Anthony Powell), Time

Synonyms & antonyms

adjective(of persons) lacking in refinement or grace

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

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Chicago

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