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FANNY

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

External female sex organs

Example:

in England 'fanny' is vulgar slang for female genitals

Synonyms:

fanny; female genital organ; female genitalia; female genitals

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("fanny" is a kind of...):

crotch; genital organ; genitalia; genitals; private parts; privates (external sex organ)

Meronyms (parts of "fanny"):

vagina (the lower part of the female reproductive tract; a moist canal in female mammals extending from the labia minora to the uterus)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "fanny"):

minge (vulgar term for a woman's pubic hair or genitals)

cunt; puss; pussy; slit; snatch; twat (obscene terms for female genitals)

vulva (external parts of the female genitalia)

Holonyms ("fanny" is a part of...):

female body (the body of a female human being)

female reproductive system (the reproductive system of females)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The fleshy part of the human body that you sit on

Example:

are you going to sit on your fanny and do nothing?

Synonyms:

arse; ass; backside; behind; bottom; bum; buns; butt; buttocks; can; derriere; fanny; fundament; hind end; hindquarters; keister; nates; posterior; prat; rear; rear end; rump; seat; stern; tail; tail end; tooshie; tush

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("fanny" is a kind of...):

body part (any part of an organism such as an organ or extremity)

Holonyms ("fanny" is a part of...):

body; torso; trunk (the body excluding the head and neck and limbs)

Credits

 Context examples: 

Fanny has a great desire to see Sotherton.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Fanny has been cutting roses, has she?

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Fanny's answer was extremely civil, and Edmund added his conviction that she could be in no hurry.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Fanny was ready and waiting, and Mrs. Norris was beginning to scold her for not being gone, and still no horse was announced, no Edmund appeared.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Fanny went to bed with her heart as full as on the first evening of her arrival at the Park.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Fanny left the room with a very sorrowful heart; she could not feel the difference to be so small, she could not think of living with her aunt with anything like satisfaction.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Fanny said she was rested, and would have moved too, but this was not suffered.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Fanny was too much surprised to do more than repeat her aunt's words, “Going to leave you?”

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Fanny, whether near or from her cousins, whether in the schoolroom, the drawing-room, or the shrubbery, was equally forlorn, finding something to fear in every person and place.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Fanny's interest seems in safer hands with you than with me.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)