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fanny merchant

noun

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  1. An effeminate and ineffectual man.

    • To cut a long story short, Howard looked like an intrepid explorer with an all-year tan but in actual fact he was just a chap who stayed at home and wore pan-stick: in other words, a fanny merchant.
    • He was a “cultured left back” (translation-he could play but was a bit of a fanny merchant) and he could hit a shot.
    • Right now he's calling me a 'fanny merchant' as he pins me to the wall in the Dublin Airport Hotel and lets me know exactly what he thinks of the Liverpool way just hours after a game at Lansdowne Road.

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