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bounderish

bounderish adjective: pertaining to or having the characteristics of a bounder; loutish; boorish.

Adjective

bounderish (comparative more bounderish, superlative most bounderish)

  1. Pertaining to or having the characteristics of a bounder; loutish; boorish.
    • Michaelis was the last word in what was caddish and bounderish.1928, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, chapter III, in Lady Chatterley’s Lover, [Germany?]: Privately printed, →OCLC
    • 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.1967 March 3, "The War of Total Paper" (book review of The Soldier's Art by Anthony Powell), Time

Forms of bounderish

comparativemore bounderish
superlativemost bounderish

Origin of bounderish

From bounder + -ish.

Questions about bounderish

What does bounderish mean?
Bounderish means pertaining to or having the characteristics of a bounder; loutish; boorish.
What part of speech is bounderish?
Bounderish is an adjective.

Words near bounderish in the dictionary

  1. boundedness
  2. boundednesses
  3. bounden
  4. boundenly
  5. bounder
  6. bounderish
  7. bounderishly
  8. bounderism
  9. bounders
  10. boundest
  11. boundeth

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