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English
Etymology
Pseudo-French feminine form of fan
Pronunciation
Noun
fanne (plural fannes or fenne)
- (dated, sometimes derogatory, fandom slang) A female science fiction fan.
1944, John Bristol Speer, Fancyclopedia, 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, 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, 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.
Synonyms
References
- Jeff Prucher, editor (2007), “fanne”, in Brave New Words: The Oxford Dictionary of Science Fiction, Oxford, Oxfordshire, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, pages 57–58.
- Jesse Sheidlower, editor (2001–2024), “fanne n.”, in Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction.
Anagrams
Bourguignon
Etymology
From Latin femina.
Noun
fanne f (plural fannes, masculine houme)
- woman
Italian
Verb
fanne
- compound of fa', the second-person singular (tu) imperative form of fare, with ne
- Fanne una copia. ― Make a copy of it.
Anagrams
Middle English
Etymology 1
From Old English fann.
Noun
fanne
- Alternative form of fan
Etymology 2
From Old English fannian.
Verb
fanne
- Alternative form of fannen