fanny merchant

plural fanny merchants

1. UKderogatoryslangvulgarAn effeminate and ineffectual man.

   He was a “cultured left back” (translation-he could play but was a bit of a fanny merchant) and he could hit a shot.

   2012, Paul Larkin, Poles 'N' Goals and Hesselink, page 67

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   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.

   2001, Val G. Lee, The Comedienne, page 65

   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.

   2016, Jason McAteer, Blood, Sweat and McAteer: A Footballer's Story