1919 12th US Infantry, 1798–1919 ii. 73 They made us all get in a circle and stoop over while a guy ran around and hit us on the—never mind where—with a strap—I believe they call the game ‘Bat the Fanny’ and they sure did bat me.

1930 N. Coward Private Lives i. 30 You'd fallen on your fanny a few moments before.

1948 E. Pound Pisan Cantos lxxx. 83 Three small boys on three bicycles Smacked her young fanny in passing.

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.

2010 Pittsburgh Post.-Gaz. (Nexis) 17 Jan. (Sooner ed.) b1 When I told my wife Anita I'd doubled my distance around our campus lake, she patted me on the fanny and said, ‘good job.’

1935–6 T. Rattigan Gone Away (typescript, Victoria & Albert Mus.) ii. i. f. 23 That's it. Progress. Kit. Progress, my fanny.

1960 D. Lessing In Pursuit of Eng. (1961) iv. 126 There she was,..groaning and carrying on, and saying: ‘I'm going to die.’ Die, my fanny. She'd the energy for a fifty-year-old, though she was seventy-nine.

2015 ‘E. James’ High Country Hideout vii. 81 She snorted softly. ‘Sexy, my fanny.’

1995 Re: Irvine sets Rec. Time in Estoril in rec.autos.sport.f1 (Usenet newsgroup) 6 Mar. You are obviously an absolute fanny! Coulthard is probably the best of the young drivers and..has the best chance..to win a race.

1997 C. Brookmyre Country of Blind (2001) viii. 189 That pompous fanny of an assistant editor.

2018 @nairnmurrayx 4 Apr. in twitter.com (O.E.D. Archive) Can't believe you actually still see folk snapchatting while driving, utter fannies.

1963 Amer. Speech 38 205 Fanny belt,..slang for the belt on which ski patrol men carry their first aid kit.

2004 L. Harrison Clique 187 She paid them each twenty dollars for their work and tucked the rest away in her Miu Miu fanny belt.

1991 For Sale: Porsche 924 in alt.bbs (Usenet newsgroup) 19 Mar. For sale: 1977 Left-hand drive Porsche 924... Saisho/Blaupunkt stereo system... Very effective as a fanny magnet.

1998 J. White Diary Darren Tackle 10 That's Carmine: fanny magnet. But poseur.

2018 @bsgorrie 10 Aug. in twitter.com (O.E.D. Archive) Space Force. Who wouldn't want to join that..? Uniforms bound to be cracking..and let's face it, astronauts are powerful fanny magnets.

1957 Nevada State Jrnl. 1 Mar. 12/6 (advt.) 40% off on all..Turtle Neck Shirts, Bongo Boards, Fanny Packs.

1971 Outdoor Life May 32/3 For the backpacker, there are many new or improved packs, packframes, and knapsacks, plus belt pockets, fanny packs, and duffelbags.

2000 M. Albo Hornito 161 She turns her fanny pack toward the front, thinking I am a criminal.

1842 Sheffield & Rotherham Independent 1 Jan. 4/4 The question was proposed..whether their Masters could not assist them in procuring what are called Fannies, to draw off the dust, so as to prevent it from affecting the lungs of the Grinders.

1892 Royal Comm. Labour: Digest of Evid. before Group A II. Gloss. 146 in Parl. Papers (C. 6795-I) XXVI. 1 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.

1923 Sheffield Daily Tel. 14 Apr. 3/5 Hay chopper for Sale, with Dust Fanny.

1936 B. R. Dyson Gloss. Words & Dial. Sheffield Trades 20 Fanny, a ‘dust masheen’, the extractor fan which draws away the injurious dust from a grinding wheel.

1901 G. Goodenough Handy Man Afloat & Ashore xvi. 148 Other tin vessels in use are known as ‘kids’ and ‘fannies’.

1904 Daily Chron. 11 Aug. 3/2 Many total abstainers drawing their grog and leaving it in the ‘fanny’ for the benefit of the mess.

1925 E. Fraser & J. Gibbons Soldier & Sailor Words 92 Fanny, a name for the receptacle holding the bluejackets' ‘tot’ of rum.

1943 ‘C. S. Forester’ Ship i. 13 The ‘mess-traps’ about which he had worried, the ‘fannies’ of soup.

2009 B. Thomas Carlotta's Daughter vii. 98 He reached for Jamie's tea fanny and half filled it with hot water from a boiler.

1918 E. S. Farrow Dict. Mil. Terms 218 Fanny, in the parlance of the British soldier, the name given to the women of the F.A.N.Y., or First Aid Nursing Yeomanry.

1919 in ‘P. Beauchamp’ Fanny goes to War xvii. 248 Crank! crank! you Fannies; Stand to your 'buses again; Snatch up the stretchers and blankets, Down to the barge through the rain.

1941 P. Moir I was W. Churchill's Private Secretary i. 9 To become a ‘Fanny’ at once seemed to me a passport to glamour and adventure.

2004 Daily Tel. (Sydney) (Nexis) 3 Jan. 32 The only really exotic uniforms from World War I were worn by the FANY, the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry, popularly known to this day for their style and courage as ‘the Fannies’.

1930 ‘G. Ingram’ & D. Mackenzie Hell's Kitchen viii. 86 She was without money or food and the kiddie was ill. As she told the ‘fanny’ (story) the members of the gang all reached for their ‘kicks’.

1933 ‘G. Ingram’ ‘Stir’ v. 65 ‘Spin a right fanny to the “Croaker”,’ advised Smith.

1942 G. Kersh Nine Lives Bill Nelson ii. 12 A Guardsman comes to Bill with some Fanny about needing some cash.

1982 J. Sullivan Only Fools & Horses (1999) I. 2nd Ser. Episode 3. 90 Why should I give you money to lose? And don't give me that old fanny about a losing streak.

2003 C. Leach Muscle ix. 151 As I'd suspected, the girl had given Phil a complete load of fanny.

1938 ‘J. Curtis’ They drive by Night vii. 84 Try to fanny it out the way this bloke had said.

1949 John o' London's Weekly 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.

1965 A. Prior Interrogators viii. 147 They could not fanny Norris into thinking they believed he might have been out to a woman.

2015 F. Kurylo & N. Kurylo in F. Foreman et al. Last Real Gangster ii. 95 The Krays signed for the billiard hall on a proper deal. It was never blagged, they never fannied him.

1969 N. Cohn Pop from Beginning xv. 147 The Stones had had chances... The right moment went and still they fannied about.

1987 Guardian 24 Oct. 19/5 Once they begin, no point in either of them fannying around or playing cute.

1995 New Musical Express 28 Oct. 13/1 Imagine Satan's surprise when it turned out that Mick, Keith and Brian were just fannying about with it for ‘artistic’ reasons.

2004 Independent (Compact ed.) 8 Apr. (Review section) 13/1 Having fannied around for 20 minutes..deciding what to pack, [I] eventually decided to go in what I was wearing.