Fanny vs Mingle - What's the difference?
fanny | mingle |
* 1883 , Heart and Science , Chatto and Windus, page 227:
To mix; intermix; to combine or join, as an individual or part, with other parts, but commonly so as to be distinguishable in the product; to confuse; to confound.
* Bible, Exodus ix. 24
To associate or unite in society or by ties of relationship; to cause or allow to intermarry; to intermarry.
* Bible, Ezra ix. 2
To deprive of purity by mixture; to contaminate.
* Henry Rogers
(obsolete) To put together; to join.
To make or prepare by mixing the ingredients of.
* (Nathaniel Hawthorne)
To become mixed or blended.
As nouns the difference between fanny and mingle
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 mingle is (obsolete) a mixture.As a verb mingle is
to mix; intermix; to combine or join, as an individual or part, with other parts, but commonly so as to be distinguishable in the product; to confuse; to confound.fanny
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Alternative forms
* (l)Proper noun
(en proper noun)- "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!"
mingle
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(Webster 1913)Verb
(mingl)- There was fire mingled with the hail.
- Across the city yesterday, there was a feeling of bittersweet reunion as streams of humanity converged and mingled at dozens of memorial services. —
New York Times
- The holy seed have mingled themselves with the people of those lands.
- a mingled , imperfect virtue
- (Shakespeare)
- [He] proceeded to mingle another draught.