What is the English slang for fanny?

fanny. / (ˈfænɪ) / nounplural -nies slang. taboo, British the female genitals. mainly US and Canadian the buttocks.

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What is fanny slang for in UK?

Noun. fanny (countable and uncountable, plural fannies) (Britain, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, vulgar) The female genitalia. [

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Why do the English call it a fanny?

fanny (n.)

"buttocks," 1920, American English, from earlier British meaning "vulva" (1879), perhaps from the name of John Cleland's heroine in the scandalous novel "Fanny Hill or Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure" (1748). The fem. proper name is a diminutive of Frances.

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What is a fanny in American English?

fanny | American Dictionary

fanny. noun [ C ] infml. /ˈfæn·i/ a person's buttocks.

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What is fanny in English Oxford?

noun. /ˈfæni/ /ˈfæni/ (plural fannies) ​(British English, taboo, slang) the female sex organs.

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What is cockney rhyming slang for Fanny?

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Why is fanny different in US and UK?

For example, the word fanny is a slang word for vulva in BrE but means buttocks in AmE—the AmE phrase fanny pack is bum bag in BrE.

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Is it fanny or Fannie?

But Fannie was even more popular than Fanny in its late 19th-century heyday, and stuck around much longer, staying on the Top 1000 until the 1960s while Fanny fell off in 1940. Today, however, Fannie sounds antiquated at best, and rude at worst.

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Is fanny a swear word in England?

The word “fanny" in non-American English refers to the female genitals. While it's not especially rude, it can be used in quite a creative manner as an insult.

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What is a womans growler?

According to the third definition, a growler is an insulting word you can use to describe an ugly woman. Read Also: 101+ British Slang Insults.

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What is dirty British slang words?

Manky – adj – Dirty or filthy. Meat and two veg – n – Male external genitalia. Minge – n – Female genitalia, derogatory. Minger – adj – An ugly or filthy-minded person.

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What is the UK version of a fanny pack?

A waist bag, or fanny pack ( American English ), belt bag, moon bag, belly bag ( American English ), or bumbag ( British English) is a small fabric pouch worn like a belt around the waist by use of a strap above the hips that is secured usually with some sort of buckle.

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What is a growler in Australia?

The growler evolved from there into a 64oz (1.89L) brown glass bottle with a handle that is used to take home your favourite beer from your local brewpub or brewery.

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What is a growler in Yorkshire slang?

In Yorkshire slang a pork pie is sometimes called a "growler", a term probably derived from the "NAAFI growler" of earlier naval and army slang. An annual pork pie competition is held in April at The Old Bridge Inn, Ripponden, Yorkshire.

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What is the English term for growler?

growler noun [C] (BEER CONTAINER)

a jug or large bottle that can be filled with beer, especially at a brewery (= a place where beer is made). A growler usually contains 64 fluid ounces: I stop by once every week or so to get my growler refilled.

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Why was pants a dirty word in England?

For most people around the world, pants means trousers, but in British English, pants is often used to refer to someone's underpants. In fact, all those years ago, if you said someone's name is pants, then it was similar to saying that person's name is in the mud. The English, of course, preferred the word trousers.

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Why is bloody a dirty word in England?

until quite recently bloody used as a swear word was regarded as unprintable, probably from the mistaken belief that it implied a blasphemous reference to the blood of Christ, or that the word was an alteration of “by Our Lady”; hence a widespread caution in using the term even in phrases, such as bloody battle, merely ...

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What is the most popular British swear word?

The F-bomb is officially the UK's favourite swear word, as 1 in 4 adults say it's one of their most-favoured profanities (25%).

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When did fanny become a rude word?

Unfortunately for those named Fanny, in the 1920s in England and Australia the word came to be a vulgar reference to the female anatomy.

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What is a fanny pack called in America?

In America, where tourists of a certain age still adorn their waists with this fad of yesteryear, the bum bag is actually known as a fanny pack.

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What is Yorkshire slang for toilet?

Bog – meaning toilet. “I'm off t' bog.” Bogeyed – meaning half asleep. “I didn't have a good sleep last night, I'm bogeyed.”

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What is Yorkshire slang for girl?

1) A word in everyday use in Yorkshire, principally for a girl but colloquially for a woman of any age.

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What is Yorkshire slang for starving?

Nitherd refers to great deprivation often meaning cold but it can also mean starving.

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Is a growler a fanny?

Mr Bentley then told a joke about a man saying: “When I ask for a growler I don't want a pork pie”, the punchline being that a “growler” is Yorkshire slang for pork pie, but also a lewd term for female genitalia.

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What is a big jug of beer called?

A growler (US) (/ˈɡraʊlər/) is a glass, ceramic, or stainless steel bottle (or jug) used to transport draft beer. They are commonly sold at breweries and brewpubs as a means to sell take-out craft beer. Rarely, beers are bottled in growlers for retail sale.

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How big is a squealer?

The difference between the two is in the volume of beer they hold. Growlers are the big boys, holding 1.89 litres of beers (about a 6 pack), whereas Squealers hold half that amount, at just under a litre (about 3 beers).

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