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bounder
noun 5
Collocations
2ADJ.
fellow, worse, worse
PREP.
than, than
Definitions
noun
1
Something that bounds or jumps.
2
A 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.
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.
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He marvelled anew that Ruth could have cared, as she certainly had, for this fellow. A bounder, and worse than a bounder.
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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
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