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fanne

English

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Etymology

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Pseudo-French feminine form of fan

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Noun

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fanne (plural fannes or fenne)

  1. (dated, sometimes derogatory, fandom slang) A female science fiction fan.
    • 1944, John Bristol Speer, Fancyclopedia‎[1], Fannes, page 31:
      Fannes — Pronounced the same as "fans," but used in writing to mean fem fans.
    • 1951 May 21, Winthrop Sargeant, “Through the Interstellar Looking Glass”, in Life‎[2], volume 30, number 21, →ISSN, page 127:
      A little more than a week ago two fen and one fanne left for London as delegates to a big gathering formally billed as the Science Fiction Festival Convention but more intimately described as a fanference. […] Sad to relate, some of the European delegates were probably insurgents rather than true fen […] many of them would probably turn out to be real fen and fenne after all.
    • 1959, Terry Carr, Ron Ellik (as Carl Brandon), “The Cyclone”, in The BNF of Iz‎[3], archived from the original on 21 July 2013:
      Dorothy lived in the middle of the great western plains, far away from any other fans. She was a very lonely little fanne, who could not afford to go to the annual World Conventions, and had been only to one Oklacon.
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:fanne.

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Bourguignon

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Etymology

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From Latin femina.

Noun

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fanne f (plural fannes, masculine houme)

  1. woman

Italian

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Verb

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fanne

  1. compound of fa', the second-person singular (tu) imperative form of fare, with ne
    Fanne una copia. ― Make a copy of it.

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Middle English

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Etymology 1

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From Old English fann.

Noun

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fanne

  1. Alternative form of fan

Etymology 2

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From Old English fannian.

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fanne

  1. Alternative form of fannen
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