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Fanny Adams Definition


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sweet Fanny Adams
Fanny Adams
sweet FA
noun
    1. slang
      Nothing at all. Sometimes shortened to FA.
Etymology: 19c: Fanny Adams is the name of a young woman murdered and cut up in 1867, and became services slang for tinned mutton; now used as a euphemism for fuck all (see under fuck).



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