Fanny Adams

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Tinned meat. UK,derogatory,obsolete,slang,uncountable
    — The Engineer Lieutenant pushed his head inside his neighbour's cabin: “Come along—come along! You'll be late for dinner. Fresh grub to-night: no more ‘Russian Kromeskis’ and ‘Fanny Adams’!”
  2. Nothing (now largely perceived as euphemistic for fuck all). UK,uncountable

词形变化

sweet Fanny Adams alternative sweet FA alternative SFA alternative

词源

From Fanny Adams (1859–1867), a young girl brutally murdered and dismembered. Tins of mutton introduced in the British navy after her death were not liked by the sailors and were humorously said to be her butchered remains. Fanny Adams then came to mean any worthless thing, and, eventually, nothing at all ("sweet F A").
Coincidentally, the initials "FA" also fit the vulgar term fuck all, also meaning "nothing at all", leading to later perception of "Fanny Adams", or "FA", being a euphemism for the latter.
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