boundling
boundling noun: one who is bound.
Noun (1)
boundling (plural boundlings)
- 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.1991, Douglas Oliver, Three variations on the theme of harm
- The astronauts in Sky Lab made some films of acrobatics in a zero-gravity environment that amazed us earth-boundlings.1993, Rodney Cole, So you want to take physics
Noun (2)
boundling (plural boundlings)
- 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, […]1909, Charles Norris Williamson, Alice Muriel Williamson, Set in silver
Forms of boundling
| plural | boundlings |
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Origin of boundling
From bound + -ling.
From bounder + -ling.
Questions about boundling
- What does boundling mean?
- Boundling means one who is bound.
- What part of speech is boundling?
- Boundling is a noun.
- What is the plural of boundling?
- The plural of boundling is boundlings.
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