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▪ I. fanny, n.1 dial.|ˈfænɪ|
(See quot.)
1892Labour Commission Gloss. No. 3, Fanny, a local term, a corruption of fanner or fanblower; that is, a wheel with vanes fixed on to a rotating shaft enclosed in a case or chamber to create a blast of air. It is used in the scissor-grinding industry.
▪ II. fanny, n.2 Naut.|ˈfænɪ|
[? The female name.]
A tin for holding anything to be drunk; a mess-kettle.
1904Daily Chron. 11 Aug. 3/2 Many total abstainers drawing their grog and leaving it in the ‘fanny’ for the benefit of the mess. 1923Man. Seamanship (H.M.S.O.) II. 35 A full set of mess utensils, consisting of, mess kettle..fanny (metal tin 1½ gallons). 1925Fraser & Gibbons Soldier & Sailor Words, Fanny, a name for the receptacle holding the bluejackets' ‘tot’ of rum. 1926Blackw. Mag. Dec. 823/2 On board a British man-of-war the same..vessel is called a ‘fanny’... Tea made in a billy or fanny is the best to be had. 1943C. S. Forester Ship i. 13 The ‘mess-traps’ about which he had worried, the ‘fannies’ of soup. 1952G. Hackforth-Jones Dangerous Trade xxv. 175 Send a fanny full of hot tea while you are about it.
▪ III. fanny, n.4 slang
[Orig. unknown.]
1. = backside 3. (orig. and chiefly U.S.).
1928Hecht & MacArthur Front Page ii. 115 Parking her fanny in here. 1930N. Coward Private Lives i, You'd fallen on your fanny a few moments before. 1937T. Rattigan French without Tears ii. i. 44 That's it. Progress. Kit. Progress my fanny. 1946R. Campbell Talking Bronco 29 Ere you came back to serenade the sentry, Who thanks you with this bayonet in your fanny! 1949E. Pound Pisan Cantos lxxx. 95 And three small boys on three bicycles Smacked her young fanny in passing. 1953‘R. Gordon’ Doctor at Sea i. 16 Move over, Second, and let the Doctor park his fanny. 1959M. Steen Woman in Back Seat ii. vii. 284 Classy, isn't it [sc. a cardigan]?—that little roll round the fanny. 1960‘N. Shute’ Trustee from Toolroom iv. 82 I'd never be able to think of John and Jo again if we just sat tight on our fannies and did nothing.
2. The female genitals. (Chiefly British English.)
1879Pearl I. 82 You shan't look at my fanny for nothing. 1889Barrère & Leland Dict. Slang I. 354/2 Fanny (common), the fem. pud. 1939Joyce Finnegans Wake 204 Two lads in scoutsch breeches went through her..before she had a hint of a hair at her fanny to hide or a bossom to tempt a birch canoedler. 1980E. Jong Fanny i. xv. 120 ‘Madam Fanny,’ says he, obliging me, but with the same ironick Tone. ‘D'ye know what that means in the Vulgar Tongue?’.. ‘It means the Fanny-Fair,..the Divine Monosyllable, the Precious Pudendum, [etc.].’
Add:[1.] b. Comb. fanny belt U.S. = *fanny pack below.
1963Amer. Speech XXXVIII. 205 *Fanny belt,..slang for the belt on which ski patrol men carry their first aid kit. A term used by ski patrols.
fanny pack N. Amer. = bumbag s.v. *bum n.1 4.
1971Outdoor Life May 32/3 For the backpacker, there are many new or improved packs, packframes, and knapsacks, plus belt pockets, *fanny packs, and duffelbags. 1988Dirt Rider Sept. 67/2 A 20-foot rope will roll up small enough to occupy just the end of a fanny pack or the bottom of an enduro jacket pocket.
▪ IV. fanny, v. slang.|ˈfænɪ|
[Orig. unknown.]
trans. To deceive or persuade by glib talk. Also as n., glib talk, a tall story.
1933G. Ingram ‘Stir’ v. 65 ‘Spin a right fanny to the ‘Croaker’,’ advised Smith. 1936‘J. Curtis’ Gilt Kid xiii. 134 He would spin her a fanny about the marriage laws. 1942G. Kersh Nine Lives Bill Nelson ii. 12 A Guardsman comes to Bill with some Fanny about needing some cash. 1949John o' London's 4 Mar. 123/3 ‘Fannied’ a ‘Pitch’, that is, got together a larger crowd and told them of the excellence of the play to be seen inside. 1965A. Prior Interrogators viii. 147 They could not fanny Norris into thinking they believed he might have been out to a woman.
▪ V. fanny, v.2 slang (chiefly Brit.).
Brit. |ˈfani|, U.S. |ˈfæni|
[‹ fanny n.4]
intr.to fanny about (also around): to mess around, waste time; to act in an unproductive, ineffectual, or dithering manner. Cf. to fuck about v. 1 at fuck v. Phrasal verbs 1, to arse about, around at arse v.
1971J. Leasor Love-All iv. 62 We haven't much time to fanny about. 1983Listener 28 Apr. 7/2 ‘It's a racket, man,’ the chairman of CIU club 118 said. ‘We spent all afternoon watching that Griffiths fannying about.’ 1995New Musical Express 28 Oct. 13/1 But imagine Satan's surprise when it turned out that Mick, Keith and Brian were just fannying about with it for ‘artistic’ reasons. 2001Guardian 16 July ii. 4/1 She talks quickly, walks quickly, does everything quickly. ‘I don't fanny about. I'm not one of life's fanny abouters. I just get on and do it.’ |