英语词汇fanny的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

fanny. This euphemism may be an unknown personification, the diminutive of the feminine name Frances, or it may have a more objectionable history than the word it replaces. For Par- tridge suggests that the euphemism for “backside” comes from the eponymous heroine of John Cleland’s hardly euphemistic novel Fanny Hill (1749). The term in this sense is originally an American one, however, probably deriving from the English slang use of Cleland’s Fanny for “the female pudenda.” Or else Americans were reading Fanny Hill long before it was legally permissible to do so. Cleland’s classic of brothel life, which he wrote to escape debtor’s prison, has already been made into a movie, had had vast sales in paperback and, judging by recent examples, may indeed finally prove euphemistic for its genre. Another etymologist feels that fanny may come from the obso- lete expression fancy vulva; still another source traces the word to a pun on fundament (which became fun, then fan, then fan- ny), and Webster’s derives it from “the fanciful euphemism ‘Aunt Fanny’ for the buttocks.”

词汇	fanny
词源	fanny. This euphemism may be an unknown personification, the diminutive of the feminine name Frances, or it may have a more objectionable history than the word it replaces. For Par- tridge suggests that the euphemism for “backside” comes from the eponymous heroine of John Cleland’s hardly euphemistic novel Fanny Hill (1749). The term in this sense is originally an American one, however, probably deriving from the English slang use of Cleland’s Fanny for “the female pudenda.” Or else Americans were reading Fanny Hill long before it was legally permissible to do so. Cleland’s classic of brothel life, which he wrote to escape debtor’s prison, has already been made into a movie, had had vast sales in paperback and, judging by recent examples, may indeed finally prove euphemistic for its genre. Another etymologist feels that fanny may come from the obso- lete expression fancy vulva; still another source traces the word to a pun on fundament (which became fun, then fan, then fan- ny), and Webster’s derives it from “the fanciful euphemism ‘Aunt Fanny’ for the buttocks.”
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