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Cinderfella
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Etymology
en Cinderella fella Cinder(ella).
Noun
en informal sometimes attributively A man or boy who shares qualities with the character Cinderella.
en 2007 Lisa Trahair The Comedy of Philosophy: Sense and Nonsense in Early Cinematic Slapstick https://books.google.com/books?id=mYslCxkFxfMC&pg=PA59&dq=%22cinderfella%22 59 State University of New York Press, Albany 9780791472484 Keaton's new wife takes him home to her father and brothers, who all mistreat him terribly. His would be the lot of an overworked "Cinderfella" had the father not found the misappropriated letter, opened it, read of an inheritance, and assumed his son-in-law to be the beneficiary.
en 2011 Karsheem White-Holman It Is What It Is: Daze in Da Life of Mr. Can't Get It Right https://books.google.com/books?id=tUQFQD5OzpUC&pg=PA203&dq=%22cinderfella+story%22 203 AuthorHouse 9781467055994 All my life I was an underdog who was now finally living out my Cinderfella story.
en 2014 S. N. Weddle It Starts With a Kiss https://books.google.com/books?id=f1KaAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA92&dq=%22like+cinderfella%22 92 Mereo Books, Mereo Books 9781861511669 Of course I felt dreadful about using him, but still I somehow explained to Marty as we stood on the noisy sidewalk that I needed him to pose as my date for the night, and then like Cinderfella he would leave at midnight and go home like nothing had ever happened, although I suspected he had other plans.
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