- fanny about / around
- Verb. To mess around, or waste time.
English slang and colloquialisms. 2014.
fanny about / around
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fanny about/around — Brit. informal mess around and waste time. → fanny … English new terms dictionary
fanny about — verb a) To waste time or fool around; to engage in activity which produces little or no accomplishment. Then he dithered and fannied about. b) To wander about or prowl around. Johnson waited for an age while the barmen tossed bottles back and… … Wiktionary
fanny — noun (plural fannies) 1》 Brit. vulgar slang a woman s genitals. 2》 N. Amer. informal a person s buttocks. verb (fannies, fannying, fannied) (fanny about/around) Brit. informal mess around and waste time … English new terms dictionary
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Fanny Parkes — (née Frances Susannah Archer) (1794, Conwy, Wales 1875) was a Welsh travel writer. She was the daughter of Anne and Major Edward Caulfield Archer, 16th Lancers, ADC to Lord Combermere and author of Tours in upper India, and in parts of the… … Wikipedia
Fanny Fern — Portrait of Fanny Fern Born July 9, 1811(1811 07 09) Portland, Maine, U.S. Died October 10, 1872(1872 10 10 … Wikipedia
Fanny Ronalds — Mary Frances Fanny Ronalds (August 23, 1839 – July 28, 1916), was an American socialite and amateur singer who is best known for her long affair with the composer Arthur Sullivan in London in the last decades of the nineteenth century. After… … Wikipedia
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Fanny Vandegrift — {|align= right Infobox Person name = Fanny Vandergrift caption = Fanny Vandergrift Osbourne Stevenson birth date = March 10, 1840 birth place = Indianapolis death date = February 18, 1914 death place = Santa Barbara, California spouse = Samuel… … Wikipedia
tit around — vb British to mess about or behave in a disorganised or ineffectual manner. One of many similar expressions such as arse about, fanny about, fart around/about, etc … Contemporary slang
