rounder
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8.2
- noun
- /ˈraʊndər/
- Offensive
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todoterreno
- Your handwriting had changed by then: rounder curves, more curlicues, whole circles dotting the is-just what you'd expect from a thirteen-year-old.
- a first-rounder
- a second-rounder
- a third-rounder
It just straight up is the best all rounder, do everything CPU.
- It just straight up is the best all rounder, do everything CPU.
- And yet we live in a world that does not reward all rounders.
Examples
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The girls on her hall called him a rounder.
Fiction book (2001) -
Modern humans tend to be larger and rounder in cooler environments than in tropical environments.
Blog text (9) -
His long face grows rounder, the blood on it fading to a becoming flush.
Fiction book (2001) -
I was a slow starter, short and flat where my classmates were growing taller and rounder.
Fiction book (1997) -
The bartender said he couldn't serve any more drinks to that rounder who was causing trouble last night.
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Despite his charm, many people in the neighborhood considered him a rounder due to his frequent visits to the bar.
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In his youth, he was known as a rounder who enjoyed partying and rarely held a steady job.
Synonyms
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4.2
A person who is good at many different things
Compounds
Surface Forms
Morphology
rounder = all-rounder (semi-transparent) = round + er
The 'skilled in many areas' reading likely relates to 'all‑rounder' (with 'all-') and is not transparently derived from 'round' + '-er' alone; the disreputable/drunkard meaning is again a semantic drift.
Etymology
Rounder draws on two ideas from round: one from well-rounded, meaning 'complete' or skilled in many areas, and one like doing 'rounds' of places, meaning a habitual drinker or disreputable person. So the word can mean either an all-around skilled person or, in older slang, someone who goes from place to place drinking.