fanny

1 the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on; "he deserves a good kick in the butt"; "are you going to sit on your fanny and do nothing?" [syn: buttocks, nates, arse, butt, backside, bum, buns, can, fundament, hindquarters, hind end, keister, posterior, prat, rear, rear end, rump, stern, seat, tail, tail end, tooshie, tush, bottom, behind, derriere, ass]

2 external female sex organs; "in England `fanny' is vulgar slang for female genitals" [syn: female genitalia, female genitals, female genital organ]

see fanny

English

Alternative spellings

• Fannie

Proper noun

1. A given name, a diminutive of the female given name Frances.

Translations

Danish

Proper noun

1. A given name borrowed from English.

French

Proper noun

1. A given name borrowed from English; also used as a pet form of Stéphanie.

German

Proper noun

1. A given name borrowed from English.

Swedish

Proper noun

1. A given name borrowed from English.

Fanny or Fannie is a given name—a pet form of Frances, which in turn is the female form of Francis— and a place name.

People commonly known by the given name Fanny include:

• Fanny (artist), alias of breakcore artist Fraser Runciman.
• Fanny (band) was a 1970s all women rock band led by June Millington.
• Fanny (Guilty Gear), a fictional character in the fighting game Guilty Gear.
• Fanny (Sesame Street) is the first name of a girl on the children's television show Sesame Street
• Fanny Blankers-Koen, Dutch athlete.
• Fanny Brawne, inamorata of poet John Keats.
• Fanny Brice
• Fanny Burney, nickname of Frances Burney, novelist, diarist, and playwright.
• Fanny Cerrito, nickname of Francesca Cerrito, Italian ballet dancer and choreographer
• Fanny Jackson Coppin, African American educator and missionary.
• Fanny Cradock
• Fanny Crosby
• Fannie Merritt Farmer, American culinary expert and author
• Fanny Hill, (fictional) character in an erotic novel by John Cleland.
• Fanny Hackabout-Jones, title character of Fanny, Being The True History of the Adventures of Fanny Hackabout-Jones, novel by Erica Jong. (1980)
• Fanny Létourneau, Canadian synchronized swimmer.
• Fanny Lú, Colombian singer.
• Fanny Mendelssohn (Hensel), composer, pianist and sister of composer Felix Mendelssohn.
• Fanny von Starhemberg, nickname of Princess Franziska von Starhemberg, Austrian politician.
• Fannie C. Williams, educator and president of the National Association of Teachers in Colored Schools.
• Fannie Bloomfield Zeisler, pianist

Plays and films known as Fanny include:

• Fanny (musical) is a musical play by S.N. Behrman, Joshua Logan and Harold Rome based from the plays Fanny, Marius and César by Marcel Pagnol.
• Fanny (1922 movie) is a 1922 Mexican silent film written by Eduardo Urriola and directed by Manuel Sánchez Valtierra
• Fanny (1932 movie) is a 1932 French film written by Marcel Pagnol and directed by Marc Allégret
• Fanny (1933 movie) is a 1933 Italian film written by Alessandro De Stefani & Raffaello Matarazzo and directed by Mario Almirante
• Fanny (film) is a 1961 film by Julius J. Epstein based on the musical. For the film, all the songs were removed and used only as orchestral background music.
• Fany (1995 movie) (aka "Fanny") is a 1995 Czech film written by Jiří Hubac and directed by Karel Kachyňa
• Fanny (2000 movie) is a 2000 made-for-TV French film written by Marcel Pagnol and directed by Nicolas Ribowski
• Fear Of Fanny (2004), a UK touring stageplay based on the life and loves of TV Chef Fanny Craddock, which evolved to become a BBC television drama.

Poetry:

• Fanny (poem), an 1819 poem by Fitz-Greene Halleck

Places known as Fanny include:

• Fanny, West Virginia, USA

Other:

• Fanny Mae, the Federal National Mortgage Association.
• Fanny Farmer, American candy manufacturer and retailer.
• 821 Fanny is a minor planet.
• CSS Fanny, a Confederate gunboat, sometimes referred to as the first aircraft carrier.

Fanny as slang may refer to the:

• buttocks (in the US)
• vagina (in the UK, Australia and other places)

Abbreviations:

• FANY, (First Aid Nursing Yeomanry) pronounced "Fanny" were female army nurses in Britain from 1907 onwards.

arse, ass, backside, behind, bottom, bum, can, cheeks, derriere, heinie, hind end, keister, posterior, prat, rusty-dusty, seat, stern, tail, tuchis, tush, tushy