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Fanny vs Fanne - What's the difference?

fanny | fanne |

As nouns the difference between fanny and fanne

is that fanny is (british|irish|australia|nz|south african|vulgar) the female genitalia or fanny can be (uk|naval slang) mess kettle or cooking pot while fanne is (dated|fandom) a female science fiction fan.

fanny

English

Alternative forms

* (l)

Proper noun

(en proper noun)
  • * 1883 , Heart and Science , Chatto and Windus, page 227:
  • "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!"

    fanne

    English

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • (dated, fandom) A female science fiction fan.
  • * {{quote-book
  • , year = 1944 , author = John Bristol Speer , title = Fancyclopedia , url = http://fanac.org/Fannish_Reference_Works/Fancyclopedia/Fancyclopedia_I/f1.html , section = Fannes , page = 31 , passage = Fannes — Pronounced the same as "fans," but used in writing to mean fem fans. }}
  • * {{quote-magazine
  • , year = 1951 , month = May , day = 21 , author = Winthrop Sargeant , magazine= Life , title = Through the Interstellar Looking Glass , url = http://books.google.com/books?id=fVEEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA127 , volume = , issue = , page = 127 , issn = 0024-3019 , passage = A little more than a week ago two fen and one fanne' left for London as delegates to a big gathering formally billed as the Science Fiction Festival Convention but more intimately described as a fanference.
    Sad to relate, some of the European delegates were probably insurgents rather than true fen ... many of them would probably turn out to be real fen and '
    fenne
    after all. }}
  • * {{quote-book
  • , year = 1959 , author = & Ron Ellik (as Carl Brandon) , title = The BNF of Iz , chapter = The Cyclone , url = http://www.fanac.org/fanzines/BNF_of_IZ/BNF_of_IZ-01.html , passage = Dorothy lived in the middle of the great western plains, far away from any other fans. She was a very lonely little fanne , who could not afford to go to the annual World Conventions, and had been only to one Oklacon. }}
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  • Synonyms

    * fangirl, femfan, femme fan

    References

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