bonkability
English
Etymology
Noun
bonkability (uncountable)
- (slang, chiefly UK) The quality of being bonkable.
- 1994, Jill Mansell, chapter 14, in Sheer Mischief, London: Headline, published 2001, →ISBN, page 118:
- Darling, what an absolute scream! I know, we could both answer a few ads and compare notes afterwards. Marks out of ten for looks, brains and bonkability!
- 1998, Sue Jackson, Gael Wallace, quoting Maggie Millar, Women of Substance, St Leonards, N.S.W.: Allen & Unwin, →ISBN, page 113:
- I wonder how much this youth culture and the implications that women have a duty to be young and thin, no matter how old they are, impacts on a lot of blokes. Often we are only judged in terms of our ‘bonkability’. I use a phrase in my presentations: ‘Our bankability depends on our bonkability’. I think that is still true and I hate it. It is superficial and it does no justice at all to the complex beings that all people are.
- 2013, Eleanor Prescott, “Roxy”, in Could It Be I’m Falling in Love?, London: Quercus, →ISBN, page 44:
- There were no two ways about it – she was staring at a vision of total bonkability. She stood stock-still and gawped. Woody’s feet were bare and he was wearing old, battered jeans and a soft checked shirt that looked at least a hundred years old. […] He looked as hot as hell. She had an urge to lean over and lick him.