Fanny
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Fanny is a given name—a pet form of Frances, which in turn is the female form of Francis— and a place name.
- fanny is also slang for vagina.
- People commonly known solely by the given name Fanny include:
- Fanny is an alias of breakcore artist Fraser Runciman.
- Fanny was a 1970s all women rock band led by June Millington.
- Fanny is a fictional character in the fighting game Guilty Gear.
- Fanny is the first name of a girl often used in segments on the children's television show Sesame Street
- Fanny Blankers-Koen was a Dutch athlete.
- Fanny Brice was an American comic actress.
- Fanny Price was a character in the Jane Austen novel Mansfield Park
- Fanny Cradock
- Fanny Crosby
- Fanny Hill, (fictional) character in an erotic novel by John Cleland.
- Fanny, Being The True History of the Adventures of Fanny Hackabout-Jones is the title of a novel by Erica Jong. (1980)
- Fanny Lú is a Colombian singer.
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:
- Fanny (poem), an 1819 poem by Fitz-Greene Halleck
Places known as Fanny include:
- Fanny, West Virginia, USA
Fanny, is slang which may refer to the
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.
