bunny-boiler
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.49 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Example Sentences
- "Witness such media events as the Great Old Maid Scare of '86 (sparked by a study suggesting that a woman who hasn't married by age forty has less chance of doing so than of being shot by a terrorist); and the Fatal Attraction Syndrome (the notion that unmarried career women are so unfulfilled they turn into homicidal bunny-boilers)."
- "There's nothing like portraying a psychopathic bunny-boiler to boost one's self-esteem, Glenn Close tells Ladies' Home Journal."
- "The 1980s bunny-boiler was perceived to be infinitely more dangerous than the bra-burner; whereas the latter confined herself to a rejection of feminine accoutrements, the bunny-boiler – bolstered by the successes of the women's movement – did not hesitate to assert her rights and use violent means to achieve her goals."
- "He wondered why he always landed bunny-boilers who started out cool and calm but speedily went into the pursuit mode of deadly missiles."