Ok this has bugged me for well 14 years I think
I grew up calling the female genitals fanny but then went deep into reading and run into a book with character called fanny. So how does it work, Am i some remote person that grew up with this anatomical concept or is there a "clash" in the meanings of the word, Think it is time to ask.
is there a fany and a fanny ? my spell checker is saying that fany is spelt wrong
i suppose it is a bit like Dick but I think we all have higher regard for the female genitals that male when talking.
Newto love
The butt is sometime referred to as a fanny. Not the genitals... if you asked a woman to see her fanny you might get surprised.
well there ya go thats what i meant so is fanny a common name ? or does it have different spelling ?
Fanny was a term used many years ago for the rump, more commonly used b/c it was more "polite" then butt or rump; in context you would hear a parent say "be good or I'll spank your fanny". It's spelled just as you have-- Fanny. Fanny is also a female name shortened for Philomena. It's seen most in older Italian women (at least in the US).
I associate Fanny with a vagina.
hm well I've lived here in italy for 13 years now and filomena has no diminutive.
As I said in NY, there's an area here known as "Little Italy", it's not uncommon. Also, an acquaintance from Italy who is 84 is "Fanny" her given name is Filomena. But again that's here as I stated in my post, I don't know about what names are shortened to in Italy...How's this one, here a man is named Walter so you would think Walt would be short? Some use Butch....
In Elizabethan times (E I), Fanny was a very common English name. Fortunately, it never spread northward!
The term"fanny" seems to be a mostly American tern for butt or rear end. I have never heard it applied to the female genitals. And I have had those for several decades.
Yea I have heard/used the word fanny to reference the butt, but have never heard it used to reference the vagina.
[QUOTE=sera300;172833]As I said in NY, there's an area here known as "Little Italy", it's not uncommon. Also, an acquaintance from Italy who is 84 is "Fanny" her given name is Filomena. But again that's here as I stated in my post, I don't know about what names are shortened to in Italy...How's this one, here a man is named Walter so you would think Walt would be short? Some use Butch....[/QUOTE]
yes i understand you refered to an italoamerican situation, I only know one man called walter here and I don't think there is a diminutive. I don't even think it is originally an Italian name it is rare and does not sound at all Italian but I could be wrong
Walter is definitely not an Italian name, it's just different how in the US names get changed. Why do I know any of this useless trivia? So many years in the hospital patients would come in and give you their "name" when the patient chart with demographics showed up the names were so different! Meaning the name used and their given name!
yes here in italy about 50 % of people have diminutives of their name and often they are not much of a diminutive more like a totally different name
yes here in italy about 50 % of people have diminutives of their name and often they are not much of a diminutive more like a totally different name
Ive heard it used as a slang word for the vagina.
I have heard it used alot to referecne the vagina
hm ok well that's reassuring but i don't think it is a word I will use as it seems to have erm... two totally opposite meanings quite literally I could talk about the front or the back with the same word hehe
In England, it's a kind of outdated slang term for the female genitals (the whole shebang, I think, not just the vagina). It's also a name, or at least a nickname, much like "Dick" is in the US. One of the more famous and widely-circulated earlyish pieces of written porn was named "Fanny Hill," as a play on the slang term. It was published in the middle of the 18th Century.
In the US it refers to the buttocks, of either sex. It's also a bit archaic, and is considered, at most, very mildly rude. It's the sort of word little children know. It's not a very common name, and kids (at least) generally consider it slightly amusing that anyone goes by it. Anyway, when I was a child, we found it entertaining that there was something called the "Fannie Farmer Cookbook." As a name it may, perhaps, be more common in the south. There's a writer/actress/bad-game-show-"celebrity" named Fanny Flagg.
We had a store "Fanny Farmer" Candy shop, I used to laugh at it many years ago thinking it was the butt of the farmers shop!
[QUOTE=NizeGie;173016] It's the sort of word little children know. It's not a very common name, and kids (at least) generally consider it slightly amusing that anyone goes by it. [/QUOTE]
hm yes that was just my situation when I realized it was a name as well I started to not use it s much due to the confusion
OK so for another one what about crab ?
[quote=Newtolove;173070]hm yes that was just my situation when I realized it was a name as well I started to not use it s much due to the confusion
OK so for another one what about crab ?[/quote]
Crab; as in a person who is cranky? A crab you eat, shellfish? Or crab as in genital infestations?
not sure I remember some kids referring to crab I think in the sense female genitals
Never heard that one. In a sexual context, I think "crabs" (plural) pretty much universally refers to pubic lice.
As a first name (or nickname) it is uncommon, at least, and leaves a lot to be desired.
I have heard the female genitalia referred to in slang as a "bearded clam" never a crab...
[QUOTE=NizeGie;173144]
As a first name (or nickname) it is uncommon, at least, and leaves a lot to be desired.[/QUOTE]
no no I never heard it used as a name
As a last name, it's not great either, though I guess it worked okay for Buster.
... Whose name, it suddenly occurs to me, would be pretty funny if "crab" (or "crabbe") does - or did - mean what Newtolove thought it might.
When I was younger I associate Fanny with a vagina. Then I heard the word fanny with to reference the butt.
Must do with what part of the world you come from.
dude a fanny is an arse in america but in britain (especially scotland) its refferred to as a fanny :)
I think Americans refer to the buttocks as a fanny. Here in Australia, the buttocks are your arse (not 'ass', which is a donkey), and the vulva is a fanny.
Fanny is also a woman's name, although probably not used much these days. (Remember 'Fanny by Gaslight'?)
well that probably takes after english "style" or referring to body parts
I've always known fanny as another word to decribe a vagina.
Also you know them bags they call fanny packs? because their backs that go around the front of your waist, maybe theres a resemblace.
This is what I found!
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Fanny
well there you have it, it was originally an english word meaning vagina and got twisted in america like many other words
In South Africa they say fanny for a female's genitals, but not so much in England. I've heard Americans use it to mean bum. I've also heard it as a name.
hm yea just the other day (here in Italy) a young lady was in (a regular customer) and my boss was calling her fanny,
well anyway my young lady knows her vulva as fanny so at least she won't think I want to do things with her ass that should be done to the vagina
Well!! I am an English man in his 60's the word "fanny" has always been one of the many words used for a vagina, yes in the USA it is a name used for the but, I have had many jokes with my friends from America about this.
Yea I bet how embaressing if you don't know the difference
In Asia we have always assiocate the word "fanny" to mean Vagina.
Sera's link to Urban Dictionary is a good reference to clear up this debate
well as it happen on the uk government site in the sexual section for kids they refer to the fanny as in vagina so i suppose it is not that out of date it must be in quite current use, I mean I'm not that old either you know
[QUOTE=basil;178332]Well!! I am an English man in his 60's the word "fanny" has always been one of the many words used for a vagina, yes in the USA it is a name used for the but, I have had many jokes with my friends from America about this.[/QUOTE]
Well I'm from England, and while we were visiting the states a few years back, my wife had a minor accident that required a hospital visit. You should have seen her face when the doctor said "we'll just give you a quick shot in the fanny" :eek: :D
oh dear america why do you mess with our language it's not wise