boundling

boundling

English

Etymology 1

From bound +‎ -ling.

Noun

boundling (plural boundlings)

1. (rare, nonstandard) One who is bound.
   • 1991, Douglas Oliver, Three variations on the theme of harm:

     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.

   • 1993, Rodney Cole, So you want to take physics:

     The astronauts in Sky Lab made some films of acrobatics in a zero-gravity environment that amazed us earth-boundlings.

   • 2002, Karl Finatzer, Bushpilots tales:

     […] 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 to earth boundlings.

Etymology 2

From bounder +‎ -ling.

Noun

boundling (plural boundlings)

1. (humorous, nonce word) A little bounder.
   • 1909, Charles Norris Williamson, Alice Muriel Williamson, Set in silver:

     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 of us, […]

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