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Fanny

noun US /ˈfæni/

the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on

How often you will meet it

Rank 2,883 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 5,727 times across 155,139 chapters — 0.003% of every word in the library.

What it means

noun

  1. the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on also: buttocks, nates, arse, butt, backside, bum he deserves a good kick in the buttare you going to sit on your fanny and do nothing?
  2. external female sex organs also: female genitalia, female genitals, female genital organ in England `fanny' is vulgar slang for female genitals

CMU Pronouncing Dictionary · Princeton WordNet 3.1

Fanny in real books

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  • Eva and Fanny are all wrong about it.

    The Portion of Labor · Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman · Chapter 1

  • So that not liking to leave Fanny alone, it was agreed they both should accompany her.

    A Book for the Young · Sarah French · Chapter 2

  • He could talk with her about Fanny almost better than he could talk with Fanny about Charlotte.

    The Golden Bowl — Volume 1 · Henry James · Chapter 3

  • It was Tommy Drake and Fanny Marsh that furnished the sugar—nice children, the nicest at the post, I think.

    A Horse's Tale · Mark Twain · Chapter 1

  • Christmas, however, always brings up to me my cousin Fanny; I suppose because she always was so foolish about Christmas.

    The Burial of the Guns · Thomas Nelson Page · Chapter 1

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