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bounderish

adj

Etymology

From bounder + -ish.

  1. borrowed from बन्दर — “monkey”
  2. suffixed as bounderish — “bounder + ish”

Definitions

  1. Pertaining to or having the characteristics of a bounder

    Pertaining to or having the characteristics of a bounder; loutish; boorish.

    • Michaelis was the last word in what was caddish and bounderish.
    • In Powell's war, only the rotters flourish—notably Kenneth Widmerpool, whose humorless egomania and bounderish one-upmanship have won him critical status as one of the great comic creations of modern English fiction.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA