Fanny

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Look up Fanny, fanny in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

Fanny is a given name—a pet form of Frances, which in turn is the female form of Francis— and a place name.

People commonly known solely by the given name Fanny include:

Plays and films known as 'Fanny' include:

  • Fanny (1961 play) is a play by S.N. Behrman, Joshua Logan and Harold Rome based from the plays Fanny, Marius and César by Marcel Pagnol.
  • Fanny (1922 movie) is a 1922 Mexican silent film written by Eduardo Urriola and directed by Manuel Sánchez Valtierra
  • Fanny (1932 movie) is a 1932 French film written by Marcel Pagnol and directed by Marc Allégret
  • Fanny (1933 movie) is a 1933 Italian film written by Alessandro De Stefani & Raffaello Matarazzo and directed by Mario Almirante
  • Fanny (1961 movie) is a 1961 film by Julius J. Epstein based on the play Fanny (1961 play)
  • Fany (1995 movie) (aka "Fanny") is a 1995 Czech film written by Jiří Hubac and directed by Karel Kachyňa
  • Fanny (2000 movie) is a 2000 made-for-TV French film written by Marcel Pagnol and directed by Nicolas Ribowski

Poetry:

Places known as Fanny include:

Fanny, is slang which may refer to the

  • buttocks (in the U.S.)
  • vulva (in the UK, Australia and other places)

Abbreviations

  • FANY, (First Aid Nursing Yeomanry) pronounced "Fanny" were female army nurses in Britain from 1907 onwards, and may be the link between the word and the slang usage.
In other languages