different between abounder vs bounder

English

Etymology

abound +? -er

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??ba?n.d?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /??ba?n.d?/

Noun

abounder (plural abounders)

1. One who has plenty, one who abounds (in something). [First attested in the mid 18^th century.]
   • 1755, Edward Young, The Centaur Not Fabulous, London: A. Millar and R. & J. Dodsley, 3rd edition, Letter III. “On Pleasure,” p. 121,^[1]

     Say, ye strangers to Care, and abounders in Mirth! what will he do, when he finds himself still subsisting in a state, where none of those Pleasures, for which alone he wished to subsist, can possibly any longer subsist with him?

   • 1876, Robert Browning, “Pisgah-Sights” in Pacchiarotto, and How He Worked in Distemper, London: Smith, Elder, p. 81,^[2]

     Wanters, abounders,

     March, in gay mixture,

     Men, my surrounders!

     I am the fixture.

   • 1895, William Morris and A. J. Wyatt (translators), The Tale of Beowulf, Sometime King of the Folk of the Weder Geats, London: Longmans, Green, 2nd edition, 1898, Part 16, p. 58,^[3]

     Then bow’d unto bench there the abounders in riches

     And were fain of their fill.

References

Anagrams

• Euroband, be around

English

Alternative forms

• boundure

Etymology

From bound +? -er.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -a?nd?(?)

Noun

bounder (plural bounders)

1. Something that bounds or jumps.
2. (Britain, dated) A dishonourable man; a cad.
3. A social climber.
4. That which limits; a boundary.
   • 1638 Martin Fotherby (Iacob Blome: London) Atheomastix p.269:

     Let the mountaine Pyrenaeus diuide the French, and Spaniards: and the wildernesse of Sand the Aethiopians, from Aegyptians. And in like manner also be all other Kingdomes: they are bound within their bounders, as it were in bands; and shut-vp within their limits, as it were in prison.

5. (Britain, obsolete, colloquial) A four-wheeled type of dogcart or cabriolet

Translations

Anagrams

• rebound, unbored, unrobed