Definition of Fanny Adams

1. Noun. Little or nothing at all. "I know sweet Fanny Adams about surgery"


2. Noun. Nautical term for tinned meat.

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

Fanagalo
Fananas cell
Fanconi's anaemia
Fanconi's anemia
Fanconi's pancytopenia
Fanconi's syndrome
Fanconi syndrome
Fand
Fang
Fannia
Fannie
Fannie Farmer
Fannie Mae
Fannie Merritt Farmer
Fanny Wright
Fano effect
Fantasyland
Fante
Fantee
Fanti
Fantini
Fantis
Fantizi
Far-Downer
Far East
Far East Russian encephalitis
Far East haemorrhagic fever
Far Eastern

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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