bounderish

English

Etymology

From bounder +‎ -ish.

Adjective

bounderish (comparative more bounderish, superlative most bounderish)

1. Pertaining to or having the characteristics of a bounder; loutish; boorish.
   • 1928, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, chapter III, in Lady Chatterley’s Lover, [Germany?]: Privately printed, →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.

Related terms

• bounderishly
• bounderishness

References

• Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed., 1989.