Fanny Adams

短语

无价值之物；（英）罐头肉；范妮·亚当斯（女子名）

发音

AU

别名

sweet Fanny Adams sweet FA SFA

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    Tinned meat.

    英国 贬义 废旧 俚语 不可数 政治 军事
  2. 2.

    Nothing (now largely perceived as euphemistic for fuck all).

    不可数

词汇关系

名词

同义词 2

bugger all fuck all

上位词 10

nothing zero zip cipher naught nil nix null zilch aught

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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