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单词 sweet fanny adams
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sweet Fanny Adams


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Noun1.sweet Fanny Adams - little or nothing at all; "I asked for a raise and they gave me bugger-all"; "I know sweet Fanny Adams about surgery"bugger all, Fanny Adams, fuck alldirty word, vulgarism, obscenity, smut, filth - an offensive or indecent word or phraseBritain, Great Britain, U.K., UK, United Kingdom, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland - a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland; `Great Britain' is often used loosely to refer to the United Kingdomgoose egg, nada, naught, nil, nix, nothing, null, zero, zilch, zip, zippo, aught, cypher, cipher - a quantity of no importance; "it looked like nothing I had ever seen before"; "reduced to nil all the work we had done"; "we racked up a pathetic goose egg"; "it was all for naught"; "I didn't hear zilch about it"

sweet Fanny Adams


sweet Fanny Adams

rude slang Nothing. The term is a euphemism, based on the initials of "Fanny Adams" ("FA"), for "fuck all," which means the same thing. Sometimes shortened to "sweet FA." I worked there for 20 years and was dismissed with sweet Fanny Adams to show for it!See also: Adam, fanny, sweet

sweet Fanny Adams

absolutely nothing at all. informal Fanny Adams was the youthful victim in a famous murder case in 1867 , her body being mutilated and cut to pieces by the killer. With gruesome black humour, her name came to be used as a slang term for a type of tinned meat or stew recently introduced to the Royal Navy; the current meaning developed early in the 20th century. Sweet Fanny Adams is often abbreviated in speech to sweet FA , which is understood by many to be a euphemism for sweet fuck all .See also: Adam, fanny, sweet
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sweet Fanny Adams


  • noun

Synonyms for sweet Fanny Adams

noun little or nothing at all

Synonyms

  • bugger all
  • Fanny Adams
  • fuck all

Related Words

  • dirty word
  • vulgarism
  • obscenity
  • smut
  • filth
  • Britain
  • Great Britain
  • U.K.
  • UK
  • United Kingdom
  • United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
  • goose egg
  • nada
  • naught
  • nil
  • nix
  • nothing
  • null
  • zero
  • zilch
  • zip
  • zippo
  • aught
  • cypher
  • cipher
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