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мстительная женщина (a woman who punishes a man in a dangerous or cruel way because he has stopped being her sexual partner: She was described in the press as a bunny boiler.  oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com olga69); стерва (a person, esp a woman, who is considered to be emotionally unstable and likely to be dangerously vengeful // Word origin
From a scene in the 1987 film Fatal Attraction where a scorned woman (played by Glenn Close), seeking revenge on her ex-lover (played by Michael Douglas), places his family's beloved pet rabbit in a pot of boiling water when he is away from the house: Nobody, it seemed, wanted to risk getting on the wrong side of a potential bunny boiler. wiktionary.org olga69) |
