fanne

English

Etymology

Pseudo-French feminine form of fan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fæn/
• Rhymes: -æn
• Homophones: fan, faan

Noun

fanne (plural fannes or fenne)

1. (dated, sometimes derogatory, fandom slang) A female science fiction fan.
   • 1944, John Bristol Speer, Fancyclopedia‎^[1], Fannes, page 31:

     Fannes — Pronounced the same as "fans," but used in writing to mean fem fans.

   • 1951 May 21, Winthrop Sargeant, “Through the Interstellar Looking Glass”, in Life‎^[2], volume 30, number 21, →ISSN, page 127:

     A little more than a week ago two fen and one fanne left for London as delegates to a big gathering formally billed as the Science Fiction Festival Convention but more intimately described as a fanference. […] Sad to relate, some of the European delegates were probably insurgents rather than true fen […] many of them would probably turn out to be real fen and fenne after all.

   • 1959, Terry Carr, Ron Ellik (as Carl Brandon), “The Cyclone”, in The BNF of Iz‎^[3], archived from the original on 21 July 2013:

     Dorothy lived in the middle of the great western plains, far away from any other fans. She was a very lonely little fanne, who could not afford to go to the annual World Conventions, and had been only to one Oklacon.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:fanne.

Synonyms

• fangirl, femfan, femme fan

References

• Jeff Prucher, editor (2007), “fanne”, in Brave New Words: The Oxford Dictionary of Science Fiction, Oxford, Oxfordshire, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, pages 57–58.
• Jesse Sheidlower, editor (2001–2024), “fanne n.”, in Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction.

Anagrams

• nafen

Bourguignon

Etymology

From Latin femina.

Noun

fanne f (plural fannes, masculine houme)

1. woman

Italian

Verb

fanne

1. compound of fa', the second-person singular (tu) imperative form of fare, with ne

   Fanne una copia. ― Make a copy of it.

Anagrams

• nanfe

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English fann.

Noun

fanne

1. Alternative form of fan

Etymology 2

From Old English fannian.

Verb

fanne

1. Alternative form of fannen