Talk:Fanny

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Does this need to be disambiguated? -- Zoe

From what? British slang for 'vagina'? Or is there something else also? ... Maybe so, I don't know. We have an article on fuck. --KQ

Well, either that or the American slang for rear end. -- Zoe

Oh yeh. That too. How about this: It could be disambiguated from the 1932 film directed by Marc Allegret, also based on the Marcel Pagnol play. That would keep body parts out of it entirely.  :-) (and no, I haven't seen either version, though I've read good things about the older one). --KQ 03:48 Sep 27, 2002 (UTC)

[edit] Vagina

I notice that another user (incorrectly) labelled the insertion of the "vagina" usage as vandalism. This is still in common use in the United Kingdom. It was removed a while back on the basis that "Wikipedia is not a slang dictionary", and I did not reinsert it when I noticed this. However, I've been given the opportunity to reconsider the situation. Wikipedia has a *whole article* dedicated to the slang use of the word "pussy" for the same thing, and I'm not even proposing putting any more than a naked disambig entry for the equivalent use for "fanny". It's not as widespread as the word "pussy", but it's still common and well-documented enough to warrant disambig-page inclusion. It's reasonable to expect that someone might come across the word "fanny" in this context and require a disambig as for any other word and/or usage.

Therefore, I am putting an entry for this usage in the disambig article. Fourohfour 18:38, 18 April 2006 (UTC)

The bee gees had a hit song with the word "fanny"--fanny be tender with my love--in it. I'm suspicious that that term is considered offensive —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 70.17.170.4 (talk • contribs) .

fanny n. 1. *(sl.) buttons 2. ||(vulg.) female genitals. [20th c.; orig.unkn.]

(my emphasis); from The Concise Oxford Dictionary, Seventh Edition (1982)

See also wordnet.princeton.edu's definition online.

Did you use Google to confirm/refute the claim? Here's a simple search that comes up with lots of confirmations of the meaning.

As to whether the British use of the term is "offensive"; well, that's a matter of opinion. The article didn't claim that it was; it's less offensive than the c-word, that's for sure.

Fourohfour 18:28, 10 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Buttocks

With the addition of the vagina disambig, I thought it only proper to include the American use of the word meaning buttocks as well. The wiki article "buttocks" also links directly to fanny, thus I thought it appropriate to have it included here, as otherwise I feel the article would be incomplete and possibly cause confusion to those who were unaware of the useage difference. Livingston 10:22, 04 May 2006 (UTC)