boundling
One who is bound.
Noun nonstandard, rare
- 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...
- 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:
- […] sing old songs and have always had the desire to make love to middle-aged women in the backseat of old cars. But most of all, I like old airplanes. In some strange way they open up a door to the past that is closed...
Origin
From bound + -ling.
Forms
Noun humorous, nonce word
- 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...
Origin
From bounder + -ling.