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Gypsy
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Gypsy asked in Social SciencePsychology · 2 decades ago

Are you a....?

bridge burner or a bunny boiler?

Update:

Etymology

From the character of Alex Forrest, played by Glenn Close in the 1987 film Fatal Attraction, who exacted revenge by killing the family pet rabbit, and leaving it boiling on the stove to be found by the family of the boyfriend.

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Noun

bunny boiler

slang

A person who responds to the end of a relationship in a most extreme manner.

By extension, any person with that reputation.

Extremely obsessive girlfriend/boyfriend, though it is often used with humour when discussing an unhealthily (or annoyingly) needy girlfriend/boyfriend

.http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Bunny_boiler

Update 2:

BTW, if you don't GET the nuances of the question, or what it means, why answer it?

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  • Biki
    2 decades ago
    Favorite Answer

    I'll boil your bunnies with the fire from the bridges! I like to conserve energy that way yup...

  • Chreap
    Lv 5
    2 decades ago

    No idea what a 'bunny boiler' is, but I've burned bridges from several people in the past...especially past employers.

    I'm lucky to have a job right now!

  • NA
    Lv 6
    2 decades ago

    Bridge burner...I'd rather just move on with my life than get the pleasure of making someone else miserable, along with me. Although I have been guilty of boiling a couple of bunnies in my younger, more vindictive days.

  • rose
    2 decades ago

    I dont know whats a bridge burner or a bunny boiler

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  • Anonymous
    2 decades ago

    I like rabbit, chargrilled over the embers of a burnt bridge. Neither

  • a kinder, gentler me
    Lv 7
    2 decades ago

    Bridge burner.

  • Betty Sue
    2 decades ago

    mostly a bridge burner, but i've been known to boil a few bunnies.

  • Andy
    2 decades ago

    the bridge burner, i like removing all knowledge and evidence of a friend of lover from my mind, it's like they never existed

  • sweetload22
    2 decades ago

    a bunny burner

  • mrsgilleland
    2 decades ago

    i know what it means to burn bridges, but what does it mean to be a bunny boiler?

    i certainly try not to burn bridges. i pretty forgiving person and compassionate.

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