spunky

a scrumptious person or thing

After spending a long night with him, she felt scrumptious. I've never been spunkier, she thought.

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Vanilla

plain

conventional

unflavored

Just plain vanilla beans and rice for dinner.

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bounce

to have an email message returned because the intended recipient's mailbox is full, his server is down, or other glitch.

I've been trying to add you to the mailing list using the address you gave me, but the emails keep bouncing.

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babushka

1 a triangular kerchief head covering

2 an elderly Russian or eastern European woman. Stereotypically stout.

Once a week I visit three babushkas.

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big swinging dick

1. the financial industry's term for a rainmaker; a Wall Street executive who brings in enormous amounts of money for the firm, possibly because he has just screwed a customer.

An expression made famous by Michael Lewis in Liar’s Poker, published in 1989.

2. a mover and shaker in any organization

Calling some one a dick is an insult.
Calling some one a big dick is a bigger insult.
Calling some one a big swinging dick is a term of respect.

Not a nickname for a large gorilla named Richard.

But Dick Perle didn't want to be a mere influence peddler. He wanted to be a businessman, a venture capitalist, a Big Swinging Dick.

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deliverance

A great book and great movie that has been reduced to a line of viscerally disturbing dialogue. This movie did for homophobia what "Saturday Night Fever" did for disco.

Mountain Man: What do you want to do now?
Toothless Man: Grinning He's got a real pretty mouth on him, don't he?
Mountain Man: I'm gonna make you squeal like a pig. Weeeeeeee.

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cobain

The right rear seat of a car.

Driver "Let's hit the road."
Teen 1 "Shotgun!"
Teen 2 "Cobain!"

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