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Then he dithered and fannied about.
Johnson waited for an age while the barmen tossed bottles back and forth, poured luminous liquids into glasses from great heights, and fannied about with fruit and frivolities.
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fanny about — ● fanny … Useful english dictionary
fanny about — vb British to faff about, dither. The fanny element may be present merely for its sound, its proximity to fuss or faff, or as a sugges tion of femininity, rather than as a direct reference to the buttocks or genitals … Contemporary slang
fanny about/around — Brit. informal mess around and waste time. → fanny … English new terms dictionary
fanny about / around — Verb. To mess around, or waste time … English slang and colloquialisms
Fanny Hill — Cover of an undated American edition, c. 191 … Wikipedia
Fanny (film) — Infobox Film name = Fanny caption = DVD cover imdb id = 0054866 amg id = 1:16746 writer = Julius J. Epstein S.N. Behrman (play) Joshua Logan (play) Harold Rome (play) Marcel Pagnol (play) starring = Leslie Caron Horst Buchholz Maurice Chevalier… … Wikipedia
fanny-fit — n British a bout of consternation or agitation. This term, based on fussing as described in the phrase fanny about, became popular amongst all age groups in the 1990s. His sie fit is a similar usage from the same period … Contemporary slang
fanny — noun (plural fannies) 1》 Brit. vulgar slang a woman s genitals. 2》 N. Amer. informal a person s buttocks. verb (fannies, fannying, fannied) (fanny about/around) Brit. informal mess around and waste time … English new terms dictionary
Fanny Fern — Portrait of Fanny Fern Born July 9, 1811(1811 07 09) Portland, Maine, U.S. Died October 10, 1872(1872 10 10 … Wikipedia
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