fem
adjective
fem
1 American
[fem]
/ fɛm /
fem.
2
American
abbreviation
-
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,” tweeted “RuPaul’s Drag Race” champion Bob the Drag Queen.
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
Yes, I know it is still there, for in my heart I believe the legend of the sacred red fem.
From "Where the Red Fern Grows" by Wilson Rawls
“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
Mr H. Bradley thinks the association with lad merely accidental, the word first appearing about 1300 in northern writings as lasce, evidently representing a Scand. laskw, the fem. of an adj. meaning unmarried; cf.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various
"Kayyimah," the fem. of "Kayyim," misprinted "Kayim" in vol. ii.
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 08 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir
Harriet, Harriot, fem. and dim. forms of Harry, Henry.—Dim.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various
Article: but as it is the dam that is spoken of, the reference is made by the Personal Pronoun of the fem. gender.
From Elements of Gaelic Grammar by Stewart, Alexander
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