fanny. / (ˈfænɪ) / nounplural -nies slang. taboo, British the female genitals. mainly US and Canadian the buttocks.
Noun. fanny (countable and uncountable, plural fannies) (Britain, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, vulgar) The female genitalia. [
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.
fanny | American Dictionary
fanny. noun [ C ] infml. /ˈfæn·i/ a person's buttocks.
noun. /ˈfæni/ /ˈfæni/ (plural fannies) (British English, taboo, slang) the female sex organs.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 ...
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%).
Unfortunately for those named Fanny, in the 1920s in England and Australia the word came to be a vulgar reference to the female anatomy.
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.
Bog – meaning toilet. “I'm off t' bog.” Bogeyed – meaning half asleep. “I didn't have a good sleep last night, I'm bogeyed.”
1) A word in everyday use in Yorkshire, principally for a girl but colloquially for a woman of any age.
Nitherd refers to great deprivation often meaning cold but it can also mean starving.
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.
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.
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).