FANNY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does fanny mean? 

• FANNY (noun)
  The noun FANNY has 2 senses:

1. the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on

2. external female sex organs

  Familiarity information: FANNY used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FANNY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The fleshy part of the human body that you sit on

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

arse; ass; backside; behind; bottom; bum; buns; butt; buttocks; can; derriere; fanny; fundament; hind end; hindquarters; keister; nates; posterior; prat; rear; rear end; rump; seat; stern; tail; tail end; tooshie; tush

Context example:

are you going to sit on your fanny and do nothing?

Hypernyms ("fanny" is a kind of...):

body part (any part of an organism such as an organ or extremity)

Holonyms ("fanny" is a part of...):

body; torso; trunk (the body excluding the head and neck and limbs)

Sense 2

Meaning:

External female sex organs

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

fanny; female genital organ; female genitalia; female genitals

Context example:

in England 'fanny' is vulgar slang for female genitals

Hypernyms ("fanny" is a kind of...):

crotch; genital organ; genitalia; genitals; private parts; privates (external sex organ)

Meronyms (parts of "fanny"):

vagina (the lower part of the female reproductive tract; a moist canal in female mammals extending from the labia minora to the uterus)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "fanny"):

minge (vulgar term for a woman's pubic hair or genitals)

cunt; puss; pussy; slit; snatch; twat (obscene terms for female genitals)

vulva (external parts of the female genitalia)

Holonyms ("fanny" is a part of...):

female body (the body of a female human being)

female reproductive system (the reproductive system of females)

 Context examples 

Fanny's gratitude, when she heard the plan, was, in fact, much greater than her pleasure.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Fanny Harville was a very superior creature, and his attachment to her was indeed attachment.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

Fanny was startled at the proposal.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

Fanny's relief, and her consciousness of it, were quite equal to her cousins'; but a more tender nature suggested that her feelings were ungrateful, and she really grieved because she could not grieve.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Fanny paused a moment, and then, with fresh vigor, said, My love I would ask them with all my heart, if it was in my power.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

Fanny live with me! the last thing in the world for me to think of, or for anybody to wish that really knows us both.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Fanny looked very angry too, and her husband was all in a fright at his sister's audacity.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

Fanny coloured and looked at Edmund, but felt too angry for speech; and he needed a little recollection before he could say, Your lively mind can hardly be serious even on serious subjects.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Fanny, rejoicing in her escape, and proud of the ready wit that had procured it, wrote the next morning to Lucy, to request her company and her sister's, for some days, in Harley Street, as soon as Lady Middleton could spare them.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

Fanny had never heard the harp at all, and wished for it very much.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)