bunny boiler
noun informal
A woman who acts vengefully after having been spurned by her lover.In the end, it was the battle of the bunny-boilers and he lost....
- Reading your fiancé's e-mails is not called being a bunny-boiler, it's called being sensible.
- The return of the bunny-boiler at first didn't seem to fill Stuart with joy.
Origin
With reference to the film Fatal Attraction (1987), in which a rejected woman boils her lover's pet rabbit.