fem
adjective
fem
1 American
[fem]
/ fɛm /
fem.
2
American
abbreviation
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female.
-
feminine.
fem
British
abbreviation
-
female
-
feminine
Etymology
Origin of fem
By shortening
Example Sentences
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You're ignoring the fact that no society can survive without fem men, or masc women, or fem women, or people in between all of that.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 16, 2020
"She was amazing. She was this supercrotchety, high fem, old-school lesbian. She was a thrift store dressing person, and had a dog, and drove a Jeep, and chain-smoked, and she had no filter."
From Salon ● Jun. 20, 2020
I’m fem, no worse than them, So why not my turn?
From Washington Post ● Jun. 23, 2016
My look was serving “faggot fairy”, my friend fierce queer fem, and my other pal eastern-Euro realness with some 90s flashback.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 31, 2014
At Great-uncle Edisto’s funeral, Peach had thrown up into a potted fem and then had dribbled vomit on Declaration’s new patent-leather shoes.
From Each Little Bird That Sings by Deborah Wiles
“She taught me to embrace myself through drag in spite of the world not loving me back. I’m big, I’m brown, I’m gay and I’m fem. Everything changed after that,” she said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 30, 2025
But there is a fem. form Wardah = a single rose.
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 08 by Sir Richard Francis Burton
The other cases, both mas. and fem., are formed from the nominative, according to the rules already given for forming the cases of nouns of the first declension.
From Elements of Gaelic Grammar by Alexander Stewart
"Kayyimah," the fem. of "Kayyim," misprinted "Kayim" in vol. ii.
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 08 by Sir Richard Francis Burton
Faráshah is the fem. or singular form of "Farásh," a butterfly, a moth.
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 07 by Sir Richard Francis Burton
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