To ask where this awful word came from?

[WhyCantIuseTheNameIWant]

Fanjo.
Even my auto-correct doesn't like it. Fan jo.

[TheFirstOfHerName]

I think it might be Irish slang, but I might have imagined that.

[DonkeyOaty]

What is awful about it please?

[ChaosTrulyReigns]

Better than moist, though.

[ImLizawithaZ]

Chaos

[WhyCantIuseTheNameIWant]

Donkey, I am not sure!
It bears little resemblance to the word it meant to replace.
It makes no sense, unless I have missed a link somewhere?
First, that is possible, thanks.

[SnakeyMcBadass]

I like fanjo. It's granny friendly without being twee.

[SilverBirchWithout]

Better than minge

[TheNumberfaker]

I presume from Fanny? I quite like it.
Sounds less quaint or ridiculous than fanny, not as anatomically incorrect blunt as vagina, not at all derogatory like cunt or pussy. It just sounds right to me!

[DonkeyOaty]

Mmmmmmmmmmmoyyyyssssst

I seem to recall Bill Bailey doing a thing on Carol Vorderman's voice while saying moist.

[AnyoneForTennis]

Sadly I think it's from an MN thread in the distant past?

[thegreylady]

I like it and have introduced my 3 teenage dgd's to the word.

[SilverBirchWithout]

Derived from Fanny I would think. I feel it works well as a term, non-offensive and not clinical. It's quite a jolly and friendly term to me.

[LuluJakey1]

I like the word fanjo, better than fanny and definitely better than minge. My grandma used to say tutti-frutti which I often say at home but no one else seems to use it except me and DH.

[SoldierBear]

God knows.
Bloody stupid word!
Looks like banjo gone wrong.
Or fandango, which makes me think of Bohemian Rhapsody.
Never come across it anywhere but here.

[Socalled]

Definitely not Irish slang. I'm Irish and never heard the word until I came on MN four years ago - I assumed it was a Mn coinage..?

[GayByrne]

With you Socalled. Don't pin this one on the paddies lads...

Defo an mn thing.

[TheNameIWantedIsTaken]

I much prefer it to some other words that male me cringe. Moist has already been mentioned but another is gusset. Gunt for extra gross brownie points!

[NoMontagues]

It's not Irish slang. It's a mn thing.

[CordeliaFoxx]

Scottish as far as I'm aware, husband uses the word quite often

[SoldierBear]

See, this is where my confusion lies.
Minge and fanny are totally different, so what exactly is Fanjo supposed to refer to?
if it is vulva, then what's wrong with actually saying vulva? Fanjo isn't any shorter and IMO it is twee to make up a word instead of using the actual name.
(Not going into the whole business of people insisting on using vagina when they mean vulva)

[CordeliaFoxx]

It's not a MN thing, DH has never been near here in his life!

[SoldierBear]

Not Scottish slang. Never heard any Scot use it in my life until I came on here.

[SilverBirchWithout]

I assumed Fanjo was Vagina? I was just using Minge as an example of a word that is worse.

[ShadowsCollideCantLogInToMN]

Definitely not Irish. It's a word I'd never heard before I was on MN. In Ireland you're more likely to hear gee, guther, or flossie (though that last one may just be used by my cousin . All hideous words, btw. I'm pretty sure fanjo is an MN thing.

[CordeliaFoxx]

Well DH is the only person I've heard use it in RL, he's Glasweigan, will ask him later!