bounderish
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bounderish (comparative more bounderish, superlative most bounderish)
- Pertaining to or having the characteristics of a bounder; loutish; boorish.
- 1928, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, chapter III, in Lady Chatterley’s Lover, authorized British edition, London: Martin Secker […], published February 1932 (May 1932 printing), →OCLC:
- Michaelis was the last word in what was caddish and bounderish.
- 1967 March 3, "The War of Total Paper" (book review of The Soldier's Art by Anthony Powell), Time:
- 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.
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- Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed., 1989.