fanny merchant

fanny merchant
n
British
someone who behaves in an indecisive, weak or supposedly effeminate way 'Stop pratting about, Hoddle, and get stuck in. You're nothing but a fanny mer-chant. '
(Recorded, football supporter, North London, 1985)

Contemporary slang . 2014.

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