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单词 fanny adams
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Fanny Adams


fanny adams

n 1. (usually preceded by sweet) absolutely nothing at all. Often shortened to: f.a., FA or SFA 2. chiefly nautical (formerly) tinned meat, esp mutton [C19: for sense 1: a euphemism for fuck all for sense 2: from the name of a young murder victim whose body was cut up into small pieces. ]
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Noun1.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, fuck all, sweet Fanny Adamsdirty 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"
2.fanny adams - nautical term for tinned meatFanny Adams - nautical term for tinned meat canned meat, tinned meat - meat preserved in a can or tinBritain, 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 Kingdom

Fanny Adams


Fanny Adams

obsolete A ration of tinned mutton, as provided upon a naval ship. This macabre sobriquet was taken from the name of an eight-year-old girl who was brutally murdered in 1867, thus likening the quality of the meat rations to the remains of the young girl. I swear if I have to eat Fanny Adams one more time, I will throw myself overboard.See also: Adam, fanny
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Fanny Adams


Related to Fanny Adams: sweet FA
  • noun

Synonyms for Fanny Adams

noun little or nothing at all

Synonyms

  • bugger all
  • fuck all
  • sweet Fanny Adams

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

noun nautical term for tinned meat

Related Words

  • canned meat
  • tinned meat
  • Britain
  • Great Britain
  • U.K.
  • UK
  • United Kingdom
  • United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
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