• IPA: /ˈfæni/

fanny

1. (British, Irish, Australia, NZ, South African, vulgar) The female genitalia. [from 1830s]

   Her dress was so short you could nearly see her fanny.

2. (North America, informal) The buttocks; arguably the most nearly polite of several euphemisms. [from 1910s]

   Children, sit down on your fannies, and eat your lunch.

   Get off your fanny and get back to work!

3. (UK, vulgar) Sexual intercourse with a woman.

   get some fanny tonight

4. (UK, vulgar, uncountable) Women, regarded as sex objects.

   This club is full of fanny.

• (vulva or vagina) bearded clam, beaver, beef curtains, box, bush, clunge, cock socket, cooch, coochie, cooter, cunt, flange, flaps, front bottom, front bum, gash, hairy banjo, ham wallet, lips, minge, muff, pussy, quim, slit, snatch, the pink, twat, vertical smile, whisker biscuit, wizard's sleeve; see also Thesaurus:vagina and Thesaurus:vulva
• (buttocks) arse, ass, booty, bum, butt, hiney, keester, tush, tushie; see also Thesaurus:buttocks

The British naval slang sense derives from Fanny Adams.

fanny (plural fannies)

1. (UK, naval slang) Mess kettle or cooking pot.
   • 2005, Patrick Halliday, Survival, page 24:

     I put on a big fanny of Ky, that is a straight-sided pot of cocoa for them returning.

• IPA: /ˈfæni/

1. A diminutive of Frances, also used as a female given name.

• French: Fanny
• German: Fanny