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What is a bounder?

What is a bounder? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. Something that bounds or jumps.
  2. (Britain, dated) A dishonourable man; a cad.
  3. A social climber.
  4. That which limits; a boundary.
  5. (Britain, obsolete, colloquial) A four-wheeled type of dogcart or cabriolet
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But Bennett was, of course, despised by the intelligentsia because the bounder made money from literature.
Thomas, the bounder, had a small heavy ball which he managed to sink in nine.
Matthews had forgotten, too, what an imposing individual the bounder really was.
My friends think he is something of a bounder but he says it is totally out of character for him to behave in this way.
I often feel like I'm an 18th century aristocrat arriving at Lord Monck's house for dinner, a dark-coated wag or bounder wearing the latest in britches and moleskin cape.
For example, I think stable means unchanging or changing slowly, and decent means not a cad or a bounder.

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