Pseudo-French feminine form offan
fanne (pluralfannesorfenne)
- (dated, sometimes derogatory, fandomslang) A femalescience fictionfan.
1944, John Bristol Speer,Fancyclopedia[1], Fannes, page31:Fannes — Pronounced the same as "fans," but used in writing to mean fem fans.
1951 May 21, Winthrop Sargeant, “Through the Interstellar Looking Glass”, inLife[2], volume30, number21,→ISSN, page127:A little more than a week ago two fen and onefanne 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 andfenne after all.
1959,Terry Carr, Ron Ellik (as Carl Brandon), “The Cyclone”, inThe BNF of Iz[3], archived fromthe original on21 July 2013:Dorothy lived in the middle of the great western plains, far away from any other fans. She was a very lonely littlefanne, who could not afford to go to the annual World Conventions, and had been only to one Oklacon.
- For more quotations using this term, seeCitations:fanne.
- Jeff Prucher, editor (2007), “fanne”, inBrave New Words: The Oxford Dictionary of Science Fiction, Oxford, Oxfordshire, New York, N.Y.:Oxford University Press,→ISBN,pages57–58.
- Jesse Sheidlower, editor (2001–2025), “fanne n.”, inHistorical Dictionary of Science Fiction.
FromLatinfemina.
fanne f (pluralfannes,masculinehoume)
- woman
Fromfa' +-ne.
fanne
- second-personsingularimperative offarne
- Fanne una copia. ―Make a copyof it.
FromOld Englishfann.
fanne
- Alternative form offan
FromOld Englishfannian.
fanne
- Alternative form offannen
