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Definition of Fanny adams
1. Noun. Little or nothing at all. "I know sweet Fanny Adams about surgery"
Language type: Dirty Word, Filth, Obscenity, Smut, Vulgarism
Geographical relationships: Britain, Great Britain, U.k., Uk, United Kingdom, United Kingdom Of Great Britain And Northern Ireland
Generic synonyms: Aught, Cipher, Cypher, Goose Egg, Nada, Naught, Nil, Nix, Nothing, Null, Zero, Zilch, Zip, Zippo
2. Noun. Nautical term for tinned meat.
Geographical relationships: Britain, Great Britain, U.k., Uk, United Kingdom, United Kingdom Of Great Britain And Northern Ireland
Definition of Fanny adams
1. Noun. (chiefly British idiomatic) nothing Nothing (sanitized version of fuck all). ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fanny Adams
Literary usage of Fanny adams
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Annual Register edited by Edmund Burke (1868)
"Emma White was with me then, but not fanny adams. He talked to us then, ...
Alfred Pince (a very little boy): I remember the day fanny adams was killed. ..."
2. New Cases: Selected Chiefly from Decisions of the Courts of the State of New by Austin Abbott, James MacGregor Smith (1892)
"The action was brought by George W. Adams and another as executors of the will
of fanny adams, deceased, against Frances A. Berger and others. ..."
3. Wethersfield Inscriptions: A Complete Record of the Inscriptions in the Five by Edward Sweetser Tillotson (1899)
"fanny adams ¡ died | Sept. 25, 1877. | Ж. 78. ¡ Clarissa L. Adams, | died | Dec.
7, 1887. | Ж. Si. \ Walter Adams | died June 22, 1880. | Ж. 70. ..."
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