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"etymology_text": "Blend of tender + macaroni, a former trademark in the United States for a brand of quick-cooking macaroni introduced in the 1930s.",
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"ref": "1976 September, Allan Felder (lyrics and music), “Sweet Tenderoni”, in Goin’ Up in Smoke, performed by Eddie Kendricks",
"text": "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",
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},
{
"ref": "1983 September 19, James Ingram, Quincy Jones, Michael Jackson (lyrics and music), “P.Y.T. (Pretty Young Thing)”, in Thriller, performed by Michael Jackson",
"text": "Tenderoni, you've got to be / Spark my nature, sugar, fly with me",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1988 December 27, Babyface, Darnell Bristol (lyrics and music), “Roni”, in Don’t Be Cruel, performed by Bobby Brown",
"text": "Only tenderonis can give a special love / A special kind of love that makes you feel good inside",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2008 June, Nina Tracy, “Prologue: Lonely?”, in Twenty-Eight Days, West Babylon, N.Y.: Urban Soul, page 3",
"text": "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.",
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"(originally African-American Vernacular, slang) A younger (often female) love interest."
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"word": "May-September romance"
},
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"word": "sugar daddy"
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"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "younger (often female) love interest",
"word": "nuorempi"
}
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"ref": "1976 September, Allan Felder (lyrics and music), “Sweet Tenderoni”, in Goin’ Up in Smoke, performed by Eddie Kendricks",
"text": "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",
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},
{
"ref": "1983 September 19, James Ingram, Quincy Jones, Michael Jackson (lyrics and music), “P.Y.T. (Pretty Young Thing)”, in Thriller, performed by Michael Jackson",
"text": "Tenderoni, you've got to be / Spark my nature, sugar, fly with me",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1988 December 27, Babyface, Darnell Bristol (lyrics and music), “Roni”, in Don’t Be Cruel, performed by Bobby Brown",
"text": "Only tenderonis can give a special love / A special kind of love that makes you feel good inside",
"type": "quotation"
},
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"ref": "2008 June, Nina Tracy, “Prologue: Lonely?”, in Twenty-Eight Days, West Babylon, N.Y.: Urban Soul, page 3",
"text": "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.",
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"sense": "younger (often female) love interest",
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