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fanny adams
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun fanny adams has 2 senses
- fanny adams(n = noun.quantity) bugger all, fuck all, 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" is a kind of aught, cipher, cypher, goose egg, nada, naught, nil, nix, nothing, null, zero, zilch, zip, zippo
- fanny adams(n = noun.food) Array - nautical term for tinned meat; Array is a kind of canned meat, tinned meat
OXFORD DICTIONARY
fanny adams, n. Brit. sl.
1 (also sweet Fanny Adams) nothing at all.
1 (also sweet Fanny Adams) nothing at all.
Usage
Sometimes understood as a euphemism for fuck all.
2 Naut. a tinned meat. b stew.
2 Naut. a tinned meat. b stew.
Etymology
name of a murder victim c.1870
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