Tenderoni
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Tenderoni is a slang terminology which refers to a younger male or female love interest or someone too young to talk to or become involved with. It is composed of "tender", which is a synonym for young and "roni" which usually serves as an affectionate diminutive towards a male or female. It denotes your younger sweetheart, your younger better half, your younger boyfriend/girlfriend, and more recently used as an alternate word for jailbait.
In the 1970s the word tenderoni was commonly used to identify a younger male or female that an older individual was interested in talking to or dating. Or a younger person one needed to stay away from because of their age. It was not uncommon to hear someone say, "I have a tenderoni in my life", "that's my tenderoni" or "Don't talk to him/her because he/she is a tenderoni."
In the 1980s the word resurfaced when Bobby Brown used it in his successful 1988 hit "Roni" to describe a young beautiful girl. The term has surfaced in other pieces of music as well.
For the '07, Chromeo is making an effort to reinstate "tenderoni" into the loverboy vernacular.
[edit] Appearances of tenderoni in popular music
- Michael Jackson, "P.Y.T." (1982)
- "...Tenderoni you got to be
- Spark my nature, sugar fly with me..."
- O'Bryan, "Tenderoni" (1986)
- Bobby Brown, "Roni" (1988)
- Vanilla Ice, "Havin' A Roni" (1991)
- Lost Boyz, "Renee" (1995)
- "...She came back with stretch pants and a ponytail, a
- t-shirt. Ayo fam I got a tenderroni girl..."
- Tim Dog, "I Get Wrecked" (1993)
- "...Bitch ass niggaz step aside
- Tenderoni rappers, means your homicide..."
- KP & Envyi, "Swing My Way" (1997)
- "...Said I know that you don't know me
- But this might be my only shot at a tenderoni..."
- Destiny's Child, "Hey Ladies" (1999)
- "...My man's been cheatin' on me
- Been runnin' round here wit' this little tenderoni ..."
- Quasimoto, "Real Eyes" (2000)
- "...Y'all Niggaz is played like pimp sessions with
- tenderonies..."
- J-Live, "Like This Anna" (2002)
- "...A lot of snakes wanna get up in your tenderoni..."
- Chromeo, "Tenderoni" (2007)
Vivi Hoang has also been known to refer to her love interests as Tenderoni's
- Chromeo, "Tenderoni" (2007)/ Vivi Hoang...
Mykal has spent the better half of his life trying to find his own Tenderoni
