Cinderfella

English

Etymology

Blend of Cinderella +‎ fella.

Noun

Cinderfella (plural Cinderfellas)

1. (informal, sometimes used attributively) A man or boy who shares qualities with the character Cinderella.
   • 2007, Lisa Trahair, The Comedy of Philosophy: Sense and Nonsense in Early Cinematic Slapstick, State University of New York Press, Albany, →ISBN, page 59:

     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.

   • 2011, Karsheem White-Holman, It Is What It Is: Daze in Da Life of Mr. Can't Get It Right, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 203:

     All my life I was an underdog who was now finally living out my Cinderfella story.

   • 2014, S. N. Weddle, It Starts With a Kiss, Mereo Books, Mereo Books, →ISBN, page 92:

     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.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Cinderfella.