fanny

• IPA^(key): /ˈfæni/
• Rhymes: -æni

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Ultimately from Fanny, pet form of the name Frances.[1] Compare dick, John Thomas.

fanny (plural fannies)

1. (Britain, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, vulgar) The female genitalia.

   Her dress was so short you could nearly see her fanny.

2. (Canada, US, informal) The buttocks; arguably the most nearly polite of several euphemisms.

   Children, sit down on your fannies, and eat your lunch.

   Get off your fanny and get back to work!

3. (Britain, vulgar) Sexual intercourse with a woman.

   get some fanny tonight

4. (Britain, vulgar) A woman, or women generally, as a sexual object(s).

   This club is full of fanny.

• (vulva or vagina): bearded clam, beaver, box, bush, clunge, cooch, coochie, cunt, flange, front bottom, front bum, gash, kebab, lips, minge, muff, pussy, quim, slit, snatch, twat, vertical smile; see also Thesaurus:vagina and Thesaurus:vulva
• (buttocks): arse, ass, booty, bum, butt, hiney, keester, tush, tushie; see also Thesaurus:buttocks

• fanny bag
• fanny pack
• fanny fart

The British naval slang sense derives from Fanny Adams. Tins of mutton introduced as rations were not liked by the sailors and were taken by them to contain the butchered remains of Fanny Adams who had been brutally murdered and dismembered. The tins were re-used for eating from and cooking with. [1]

fanny (plural fannies)

1. (Britain, naval slang) Mess kettle or cooking pot.
   • 2005, Patrick Halliday, Survival (page 24)

     I put on a big fanny of Ky, that is a straight-sided pot of cocoa for them returning.

• Fanny Adams

• “fanny” in the Canadian Oxford Dictionary, Second Edition, Oxford University Press, 2004.