Meaning of bounder in English

Examples from literature
  • A man may be a bounder, however, without being a criminal. 
  • I've been such a bounder to him in the past. 
  • Lady Ban is awful—a bounder in petticoats. 
  • She knew that men deemed him a bounder. 
  • The bounder ought to be in jail instead of giving dinner-parties. 
(Definition of bounder from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of bounder

bounder
If your boss is blinded by their own success, then think of the three men found smashing bounders with iron hammers.
If the young bounder has altered the figures--well, if he has--then let it go through.
Then we'd better go right along, or those bounders will have buried the poor chap.
Some of these chaps are a good sort; others are quite likely to be bounders.
You bolt off like a frightened rabbit and make friends with the first bounder who comes along.
Sometimes it seemed to him that the girl was gratuitously irritating him by flaunting this bounder in his face.
You were being kissed by some terrible bounder.
Who was that bounder you were so fond of, and that girl who painted?
So deputation of leading persons, mighty good chaps, prominent merchants and that sort of bounder, call upon us.
What abominable bounders there are, to be sure!
But we need not give the bounder the freedom of our homes.
This new license and socialistic rant, the mental and moral bounders, must be held down, and we are the men to do it.
The third hit a teasing bounder to the left of the box.
The bounder ought to be in jail instead of giving dinner-parties.
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Translations of bounder

in Chinese (Traditional)
魯莽的人,粗俗的人, (尤指對女性)行為不端的人,無賴…
in Chinese (Simplified)
鲁莽的人,粗俗的人, (尤指对女性)行为不端的人,无赖…
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