From en.wiktionary.org:
** English
*** Etymology
Pseudo-French feminine form of [en]
*** Pronunciation
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
*** Noun
[s]
1. [en] A female science fiction fan .
2. * {{ quote-book
|en |year=1944 |author=John Bristol Speer |title=Fancyclopedia
|url=http://fanac.org/Fannish_Reference_Works/Fancyclopedia/Fancyclopedia_I/f1.html
|section=Fannes |page=31 |passage= FANNES — Pronounced the same as "fans," but
used in writing to mean fem fans. }}
1. * {{ quote-journal
|en |date=1951-05-21 |author=Winthrop Sargeant |journal=[Life (magazine)]
|title=Through the Interstellar Looking Glass
|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=fVEEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA127 |volume=30
|issue=21 |page=127 |issn=0024-3019 |passage=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. }}
1. * {{ quote-book
|1=en |year=1959 |author=w:Terry Carr; Ron Ellik (as Carl Brandon) |title=The
BNF of Iz |chapter=The Cyclone
|url=http://www.fanac.org/fanzines/BNF_of_IZ/BNF_of_IZ-01.html
|passage=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.
|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130721140532/http://www.fanac.org/fanzines/BNF_of_IZ/BNF_of_IZ-01.html
|archivedate=21 July 2013 }}
1. * [en]
**** Synonyms
- fangirl , femfan , femme fan
*** References
- [pages=57–58]
- [1625]
*** Anagrams
- [en]
[en] [en]
** Bourguignon
*** Etymology
From [roa-brg].
*** Noun
[roa-brg]
1. woman
** Italian
*** Etymology
From [it].
*** Pronunciation
[^à]
*** Verb
[it]
1. [it]
*** Anagrams
- [it]
** Middle English
*** Etymology 1
From [enm].
**** Noun
[enm]
1. [enm]
*** Etymology 2
From [enm].
**** Verb
[enm]
1. [enm]