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Meanings of bounder in English

Catalan
pillet
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Someone who is morally reprehensible.

pillet

Someone who bounds or leaps (as in competition)

Usage of bounder in English
1
But we need not give the bounder the freedom of our homes.
Shelled by an Unseen Foe
2
I will not have you walk anywhere in company with that bounder--
The Ffolliots of Redmarley
3
I could have imagined Mr Ross saying, Mattie, you are a bounder.
The Irish Times
4
Drake, ask this sentry, here, who in thunder that insolent bounder is.
A Chinese Command: A Story of Adventure in Eastern Seas
5
A bit of a bounder, but no end of a good sort.
The Divine Fire
6
She wished Christabel would snub that appalling bounder, Black, as he deserved.
Mary Wollaston
7
The bounder ought to be in jail instead of giving dinner-parties.
The Postmaster's Daughter
8
It's a dirty lie, and the bounder that put that in the paper-
Harriet and the Piper
9
And you know yourself that Grimes is the worst kind of a bounder.
Brewster's Millions
10
I also am a hopeless bounder, and I never knew it.
The Angel and the Author, and Others
11
You sir are a cad and a bounder, yells Jerry Thomas.
The Guardian
12
That's the fourth time you've called me a bounder since we came in.
Charles Rex
13
A bounder's a bounder, whether he lives in Sawston or Monteriano.
Where Angels Fear to Tread
14
I'll be hanged if I give my cigars to that bounder.
The Sisters-In-Law: A Novel of Our Time
15
And to think of 'er bein' the wife of that bounder.
The Rose in the Ring
16
You've been enough of a damned bounder without trying that sort of thing.
The Man from Brodney's
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