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boundling

noun

Etymology

From bounder + -ling.

  1. derived from bombus — “a humming or buzzing”
  2. derived from bombitō — “hum, buzz”
  3. derived from bondir — “leap", "bound", originally "make a loud resounding noise”
  4. inherited from *bounden✻
  5. suffixed as boundling — “bound + ling”

Definitions

  1. One who is bound.

    • Always, always look in the darkest thickets for the boundlings, a curious myth in which babies are rescued from their light covering of troubles if found in time.
    • The astronauts in Sky Lab made some films of acrobatics in a zero-gravity environment that amazed us earth-boundlings.
    • […] sing old songs and have always had the desire to make love to middle-aged women in the backseat of old cars. But most of all, I like old airplanes. In some strange way they open up a door to the past that is closed to earth boundlings.

  2. A little bounder.

    • And we were starting to hook ourselves on to the tail end of the dwindling procession, quite on friendly terms, when to my horror that young English cadlet — or boundling, which you will — strolled calmly out in front of us, […]

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for boundling. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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