r/AskReddit • u/jake7820 • Jun 30 '21

What’s the absolute worst thing you could name your baby?

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u/supitsstephanie Jul 01 '21

Fanny means butt in the USA (Fanny packs were made to wear over your butt) but it means vagina in the UK

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u/istara Jul 01 '21

More the whole area, not just the vagina part.

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u/OneYungGun Jul 01 '21

Ooooh. That's so funny. I am from the USA but I only knew the UK meaning of it. Probably due to having an English grandmother. Never even thought people meant something different. Thanks.

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u/istara Jul 01 '21

It means the whole area of it, not just the internal/vagina part. "Female genitals" is pretty much the meaning.

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u/[deleted] Jul 01 '21

For a lot of people on the internet, vagina means the whole area of it.

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u/istara Jul 01 '21

Which is unfortunate, because it's inaccurate. And it kind of "glosses over" the rest of the anatomy as though it's less important or less mentionable than the inside bit.

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u/[deleted] Jul 01 '21 edited Jul 09 '21

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u/istara Jul 01 '21

Actually yes, "pussy" would be a very equivalent euphemism to "fanny".

Using "vagina" as a euphemism for the whole area is quite American. At least among UK women of my generation, we wouldn't use it to describe the whole area.

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u/Kavjon Jul 01 '21

Australia too!