more Millionaire Matchmaker novelties

[Jonathan Lighter]

 fault-find v.  to find fault: "If you fault-find..."  [No OED; 20,000 raw
Googlits.]

golddigger n.  (now applied to men as well as women: nuance not in OED):
"Luke is a bona fide golddigger."

 hot patottie n.  a sexually attractive person [In my day it was "hot
patootie" and applied only to women.]: "Hot patotties like Matthew
McConaughey." [No OED; ca 150 raw hits going back to at least 2009.]

madman n.  a very energetic, creative, and amusing fellow [No OED; long
applied by publicists to especially frenetic comedians.]: "You are going to
love him. He is a madman!"

plumpty-tumpty   n. an obese person: "She's plumpty-tumpty!" [No OED; ca 125
raw hits, mostly in ref. to this show.]

single   adj. not in a monogamous unmarried sexual relationship [Cf. OED 8b
& 8c, neither of which quite fit]:  "Have you ever been married?" "No. Have
you?" "No." "So how long have you been single?" "About a year and a half.
How long have you been single?" [Too difficult to search for.]

ALSO: There was a guy named "Meridoc" [sic, at least according to the
screen], about 35; "I was named for a character in J.R.R. Tolkien's _Lord of
the Rings_ trilogy."

JL
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"If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the truth."

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