tenderoni

plural tenderonis

1. slangA younger (often female) love interest.First known use 1970s

   Tenderoni, you've got to be / Spark my nature, sugar, fly with me

   1983 September 19, James Ingram, Quincy Jones, Michael Jackson, “P.Y.T. (Pretty Young Thing)”, in Thriller, performed by Michael Jackson

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   Sweet tenderoni, a man should never be lonely / Sweet tenderoni, girl if I could only / I got my eye, I got my eye on you, ah you

   1976 September, Allan Felder, “Sweet Tenderoni”, in Goin’ Up in Smoke, performed by Eddie Kendricks

   Only tenderonis can give a special love / A special kind of love that makes you feel good inside

   1988 December 27, Babyface, Darnell Bristol, “Roni”, in Don’t Be Cruel, performed by Bobby Brown

   “Yeah, my game was pretty tight last night. I scored two tenderonies. I don't know their names. Anyway, madam, I wanna dispute some of these charges on my cell phone bill. I don't know anyone in Victorville. Oh, oh. No, no. No, no, no. Wait, wait. Yeah, I do. I do. Sorry.” [Beeps]

   2007 April 29, Rick Wiener & Kenny Schwartz, “When a Stan Loves a Woman” (11:42 from the start), in American Dad!, season 3, episode 16, spoken by Roger (Seth MacFarlane)

   I must admit to having been somewhat taken back by the question posed to me by the young tenderoni. "Are you desperately lonely?" he had asked a few minutes after we had pulled up in front of his dwelling, after having shared an intimate spell together and then grabbing a fast-food combo.

   2008 June, Nina Tracy, “Prologue: Lonely?”, in Twenty-Eight Days, West Babylon, N.Y.: Urban Soul, →ISBN, page 3