Meaning of fanne | Babel Free

Definitions

A female science fiction fan.

dated, derogatory, slang, sometimes

Examples

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

“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.”

“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.”

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