Fem

//fɛm// adj, name, noun, slang

adj, name, noun, slang ·Moderate ·College level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Synonym of femme. uncommon

    "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. 2
    Initialism of field emission microscopy. abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
  3. 3
    A feminine or effeminate person. colloquial, derogatory, sometimes

    "Versatile, but love to bottom … No divas or fems. Not homophobic at all, just my personal preference."

  4. 4
    Initialism of front end module. abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
  5. 5
    Initialism of finite element method. abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
Adjective
  1. 1
    Feminine, effeminate. colloquial
  2. 2
    Synonym of femme.

    "Dozens of queers, including female to male/male to female transsexuals, leathers, bears and bisexuals, butch and fem lesbians, […]"

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

Synonyms

All synonyms
feafeafemmefemme

Example

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"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."

Etymology

Clipping of feminine.

Related phrases

fem lib

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