bounder

IPA: bˈaʊndɝ

Examples of "bounder" in Sentences

The fellow is what you'd call a bounder? 'he exclaimed suddenly.
"bounder" -- I shall search the dictionary for some long word like
That is why I am civil to that little -- what you call bounder, his brother. "
The stranger was quite well dressed, nothing about his garments offended the eye or outraged good taste, yet, all the same, the man had "bounder" written all over him in large letters.
I cried out in disgust that I couldn't credit chaps like Forbes; it was too bad and didn't bear thinking about, the bounder was a disgrace to the Queen's coat and ought to be drummed out.
Well, "closing one eye and looking out of the window calculatingly," a bounder is a fellow who keeps up an acquaintance with you by persistently dunning you for money that you've owed to him for four or five years.
I may snort at the plots that seem to tie up neatly with the convenient death of the bounder who is making the heroine unhappy or, conversely, with the heroine's selfless realization that the bounder is her burden to bear and that her happiness will come, masochistically, from cooking that same burden hot dinners but I really read them for her wonderful descriptions of the clothes and food of California society from the turn of the last century to the 1940s.