abounder

abound +‎ -er

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /əˈbaʊn.dɚ/
• (US) IPA^(key): /əˈbaʊn.dɚ/

abounder (plural abounders)

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

     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,

     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,

     Then bow’d unto bench there the abounders in riches

     And were fain of their fill.

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