If you wanna get pedantic, mate, the term derived from the Jamaican patois where it was spelled punanny as Herb said:Originally Posted by John Bunnell
"Punani, an often-vulgar slang word for "vagina", originated from the 1980s Jamaican patois term punanny and was popularized through reggae and use on Da Ali G Show. Some think that the term comes from Hawaiian puanani, meaning "beautiful flower" (from pua, "blossom", and nani, "lovely"), but geographically speaking that's hard to buy. It's also been proposed is that it's from poon, another nickname for "vagina" and a shortening of poontang, which is a Haitian Creole corruption of French putain, "prostitute"......"
https://www.etymologynerd.com/blog/p...utiful-flowers
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