fanne
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Pseudo-French feminine form of fan
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fanne (plural fannes or fenne)
- (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.
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- 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.
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fanne
- compound of fa', the second-person singular (tu) imperative form of fare, with ne
- Fanne una copia. ― Make a copy of it.
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Etymology 1 edit
From Old English fann.
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fanne
- Alternative form of fan
Etymology 2 edit
From Old English fannian.
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fanne
- Alternative form of fannen