From Gustave Flaubert’s 1857 novel, modern Madame Bovary syndrome refers to a woman plagued with tendency to assume massive consumer debt in order to support a chic or extravagant life-style.
My rejection of the “ownership society” clashed with my former wife’s Madame Bovary Syndrome. Her profligate consumerism and aspirations for the “pretty life” lead to mountains of credit card debt.
A scale used to measure attractiveness of females. If a man would experience an erection in her presence, that female is a one. If not, then she is a zero.
Reference to bonary scale:
Even though she's got that weird jaw thing going on, she's still a one in my book.