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
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 it is the fem. form of 'Urr=dung; not a bad name for a daughter of Billingsgate.
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 10 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir
The few fem. nouns of this declension take the masc. terminations.
From Greek in a Nutshell by Strong, James
J Jane, or Jeanne, fem. of John, q.v.
From The Handy Cyclopedia of Things Worth Knowing A Manual of Ready Reference by Triemens, Joseph
Properly the fem. of the adj. chico, which is also used commonly for a boy, especially as a mode of address, or to call attention, hé, chico!
From The Bible in Spain - Vol. 2 [of 2] by Borrow, George Henry
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