Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

femmer

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: fem-mer
IPA

13

Scrabble Score

6

Letters

2

Syllables

4

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

adj

comparative form of femme: more femme

Example Sentences

"If we see couples into butch-femme relationships, we go, "Oh, yick!" GRACE: Perhaps I'm a little butchier than she is and she's a little femmer. We both cook. I'm more of a breakfast cook and she's more of a dinner cook."
"And ever-loving Lesbians, some butcher than even the butch muscled men, some femmer than the manikins in the Frederick's of Hollywood windows; yes, and the older gays — homosexuals, please! —are here, though not as many[…]"

Etymology

Likely from Old Norse fimr (“nimble, agile”).

Origin

Source language: Old Norse

Word Breakdown

Root: fimr
Suffix: femme

Inflected Forms

more femmer (comparative) most femmer (superlative)

Questions

What does femmer mean?: Thin, fragile.
Where does femmer come from?: It is traced to Old Norse.

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