subs. (common).—1. A four-wheeled cab; a GROWLER (q.v.).
2. (university).—A dog-cart.
3. (university).—A student whose manners are not acceptable; one whose companionship is not cared for. Hence a vulgar, though well-dressed, man; a superior kind of ‘Arry’; one whose dress and personal appearance are correct, but whose manners are questionable; a SNIDE (q.v.): often BALLY BOUNDER. Fr. mufe and espèce de cafouilleux.
18[?]. St. James’s Gazette, ‘Culture of the Misses’ (A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant). I said something one day about my own attire, and she remarked that if I ordered the particular hat I desired I should be taken for a BOUNDER; and when I asked what that meant, she said, ‘Oh, a toff, you know.’ Feeling that my ignorance had better be displayed no further, I departed by the next train.
1892. Ally Sloper’s Half Holiday, 19 March, 90, 3.
| When death of Uncle John bereft us, | |
| We said we mourned because he’d left us; | |
| Our mourning was a lot profounder | |
| To find he’d left us nix—the BOUNDER! |
1900. PERCY WHITE, The West End, 38. ‘Dignity, courtesy, and self-restraint are the sign of an English gentleman. Let … the newly acquired splendours … leave you at least outwardly unimpressed.’ ‘You mean … that I’m not to be a ‘BOUNDER’ because the mater’s been presented and the guv’nor’s built a jolly new big house?’
