Sekirov Dictionary

femme

/fɛm/

noun 4
adjective 3
verb 1
forms 5

noun4

•
A woman; a wife; (now chiefly Canada, US) a young woman or girl.
- Theodore J. Flicker and George Kirgo have penned a good script in which Elvis is played off against four femmes […]. — 1983
•
A lesbian or other queer woman whose appearance, identity etc. is seen as feminine as opposed to butch.
- I love butches, though. I dated a femme once. That was wrong on so many levels. — 2013
•
A person whose gender is feminine-leaning, such as a feminine non-binary person.
- […] there is no story of Black pain deeper than that of Black fat women and femmes. […] ¹ Gender expansive for women, femmes, and nonbinary folks. — 2019
•
(US, offensive) An effeminate or gay man.
- All I know is in this outfit I feel like a total femme! You know what? I don't have a problem with that. — 1993

adjective3

•
Pertaining to a femme; feminine, female.
- High heels are something like neckties for women, in that it can be harder to look both formal and femme without them. — 2019
•
Characteristic of a feminine lesbian or queer woman.
- Her style was more femme than butch.
(offensive) Effeminate (of a man).

verb1

To feminize.

forms

femmed · femming · femmes · more femme · most femme

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