Fanny

proper nouncommon in dialogue

//ˈfæni//

A diminutive of the female given name Frances, itself also becoming a given name.

proper noun

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A diminutive of the female given name Frances, itself also becoming a given name.
"My name is Frances. Don't call me Fanny!" "Why not?" "Because it's too absurd to be endured! What does the mere sound of Fanny suggest? A flirting dancing creature - plump and fair, and playful and pretty!"
"I spose you want to be a cattleboy," drawled the multicolored beard whose name was Carrol Day, a curiously feminine name, thought Martin, not yet acquaintanced with the bearded Marions, Fannys and Abbys of Texas who, saddled by their unthinking mothers with dainty names, built savagely masculine frames of character.

Forms

plural: Fannys

Fang · A people of western Africa.FANG · Four large technology companies, or (metonymically) their…fanny · The female genitalia.

Fanny · A diminutive of the female given name Frances, itself also becoming a given name.

fantastic · Wonderful; marvelous; excellent; extraordinarily good or…fantasy · That which comes from one's imagination or the act of…far · Distant; remote in space.

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