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  • Loved the running mildew gag and the whole idea of a ghostly bunny-boiler.

    DUMPING THE DEAD • by Barbara A. Barnett 2009

  • Late to the party, but that totally happened to me this summer … and I freaked the hell out on the dude … like bunny-boiler nutso.

    Beauty, Like A Dial-Hand | Her Bad Mother 2008

  • Everything about it was wrong, from the heavy, burnt sweetness to the prominent anise note to the bunny-boiler name.

    Archive 2009-02-01 Marina Geigert 2009

  • Everything about it was wrong, from the heavy, burnt sweetness to the prominent anise note to the bunny-boiler name.

    Caron Aimez Moi: Perfume Review Marina Geigert 2009

  • Late to the party, but that totally happened to me this summer... and I freaked the hell out on the dude... like bunny-boiler nutso.

    Beauty, Like A Dial-Hand 2008

  • Anyway, there seemed to be a lot of trouble made about wanting to remain friends, although subsequent efforts at this have been laden with “new boyfriend” references as though I am a predatory bunny-boiler on the hunt for any window in.

    …owning ‘fabulous’ « Sven’s guide to… 2005

  • She was an emotional loose cannon and he would have to disengage from her with the utmost delicacy or she would turn into what he had heard called a bunny-boiler.

    High Society Elton, Ben 2002

  • Meredith had heard that Cristina was such a bunny-boiler that a scared Dr. Burke even had to leave the state.

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Catherine Lawson 2012

  • Occasionally we'd bump into his ex who'd dumped him and I'd catch her giving me these bunny-boiler type looks across crowded rooms.

    The Guardian World News 2011

  • In truth, the film's most enduring legacy was less any significant curtailment in philandering (which quite obviously continues apace) than the introduction of the derogatory expression "bunny-boiler" into the popular lexicon, these days used routinely to describe any woman who refuses to creep away in quiet disgrace after the end of an affair.

    Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010

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  • a woman driven by jealousy to extraordinary actions. Derives from the Alex Forrest character (played by Glenn Close) in Fatal Attraction (1987)

    July 24, 2008