Bounder
an obtrusive, ill-bred man.
a person or thing that bounds.
Historical Examples
Into the Primitive Robert Ames Bennet
The Spoilers of the Valley Robert Watson
Happy Days Alan Alexander Milne
The Golden Shoemaker J. W. Keyworth
The Golden Shoemaker J. W. Keyworth
The Golden Shoemaker J. W. Keyworth
Camp Fire Yarns of the Lost Legion G. Hamilton-Browne
The Best Short Stories of 1917 Various
The Fortune Hunter Louis Joseph Vance
A Circuit Rider’s Wife Corra Harris
noun
(old-fashioned, Brit, slang) a morally reprehensible person; cad
a person or animal that bounds
n.
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