fem

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Scrabble points
8
Words With Friends
9
Letters
3
Pronunciation
/fɛm/

Definition of fem

8 senses · 3 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (uncommon)Synonym of femme.
    “Oral history gave them an opportunity to share their vision of the world across generations, while giving us a chance to imagine the pleasure and pain of daily life for butches and fems in an earlier period.”
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noun

  1. (uncommon)Synonym of femme.
    “Oral history gave them an opportunity to share their vision of the world across generations, while giving us a chance to imagine the pleasure and pain of daily life for butches and fems in an earlier period.”
  2. (colloquial, derogatory, sometimes)A feminine or effeminate person.
    “Versatile, but love to bottom … No divas or fems. Not homophobic at all, just my personal preference.”
    “[...] chasers looking for silver daddies, exec types for college jocks, straights for gays, fems for mascs, smooths for hairies, huskies for slims, blacks for Latinos, whites for Asians, straights for gays, white collars for blue collars, ...”
  3. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable)Initialism of field emission microscopy.
  4. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable)Initialism of front end module.
  5. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable)Initialism of finite element method.

adj

  1. (colloquial)Feminine, effeminate.
  2. Synonym of femme.
    “Dozens of queers, including female to male/male to female transsexuals, leathers, bears and bisexuals, butch and fem lesbians, […]”

name

  1. (Philippine, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism)Initialism of Ferdinand Marcos, 9th President of the Philippines.

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Etymology

Clipping of feminine.

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