Thesaurus results for FANNY

fanny

noun

ˈfa-nē

Definition of fanny

as in bum

the part of the body upon which someone sits be careful on that icy walk, unless you want to fall on your fanny

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Recent Examples of fanny UConn adjusted its ticket policy, allowing students to transfer tickets to try to get a screaming head connected to a fanny in every seat allotted by a ticket. — Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 19 Feb. 2026 As if a primetime showdown between two of the biggest draws on the dial weren’t already a sufficient goad to get fannies on living room sofas, NBC’s NFL game features Micah Parsons in his first run-in with the team that traded him exactly one month ago. — Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 25 Sep. 2025 Owner Dick Monfort and his son Walker, the team’s new executive vice president, count on all of those things to put fannies in the seats and lines at the concession stands. — Patrick Saunders, Denver Post, 30 Aug. 2025 The adjustable strap easily switches between fanny-pack and shoulder bag styles. — Alesandra Dubin, Travel + Leisure, 8 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for fanny

Recent Examples of Synonyms for fanny

Noun

Zellers poured the foundation, and Morrison hired fellow ski bums to do the framing, masonry, and tiling.

— Nick Paumgarten, New Yorker, 26 Oct. 2026
Carl Sandburg’s 1927 American Songbag featured a whole section of hobo songs presenting the bum as a beau ideal.

— Caroline Fraser, The New York Review of Books, 3 Oct. 2026

Definition of bum

Noun

This year’s lingerie spectacular was no different, with Dame Pat McGrath masterminding the baby winged eyeliner and pink cheeks, while Guido Palau executed the blowouts.

— Violet Hayward, Vogue, 19 Oct. 2026
The Author is facing the sea, his cheeks orange from the lowering sun.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 14 Oct. 2026

Definition of cheeks

Noun

Miller’s calculated the percentage chance that all 35 seats in play will go blue or red virtually in real time.

— Shawn Tully, Fortune, 24 Oct. 2026
Jeffries will campaign with Johnny Garcia, who’s running a competitive race in one of those seats where Republicans initially expected an easier pickup (after already forcing one longtime Democratic incumbent to retire).

— Nicholas Wu, semafor.com, 23 Oct. 2026

Definition of seat

Noun

Venice, Vienna, London, then years on the Proffers’ couch in Ann Arbor, then New York, a story ending, eventually, with coat tails, in Stockholm, receiving the Nobel Prize.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 21 Oct. 2026
There is nothing truly random about whether a coin comes up heads or tails.

— Philipp Strasberg, Scientific American, 20 Oct. 2026

Definition of tail

Noun

This is also why bucks generally have shorter tails than does, and less white on the rump.

— Tom Carpenter, Outdoor Life, 24 Sep. 2026
Then, pair a Black Angus rump steak, aged for three weeks in herbed butter and redolent of fresh rosemary (€38), with a glass of a spicy-fruity Barolo from the pioneering Piedmont vintner Chiara Boschis (€22).

— New York Times, New York Times, 16 July 2026