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Fanny vs Ranny - What's the difference?

fanny | ranny |

As nouns the difference between fanny and ranny

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 ranny is (obsolete|outside|dialects) a shrew (in the sense of the mouselike animal).

fanny

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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!"

    ranny

    English

    Noun

    (rannies)
  • (obsolete, outside, dialects) A shrew (in the sense of the mouselike animal).
  • * 1646 , Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica , XVIII:
    • instead of a caligation or dimness, we conclude a cecity or blindness. Which hath been frequently inferred concerning other Animals, so some affirm the Water-Rat is blind, so Sammonicus'' and ''Nicander do call the Mus-Araneus, the shrew or Ranny , blind [...].

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