femme
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femme
- /fɛm/
Sounds like fem · Rhymes with -ɛm
Where it comes from
From Middle English femme, itself borrowed from Old French fame (whence French femme), from Latin femina (“woman”). Doublet of feme, femina, and hembra.
noun femmes
- A woman; a wife; (now chiefly Canada, US) a young woman or girl. Then I turned to him and said, "O my lord, I have that to propose to thee wherein thou must not cross me; and this it is that, when we reach Baghdad, my native city, I offer thee my life as thy handmaiden in holy matrimony, and thou shalt be to me baron and I will be femme to thee."
- A lesbian or other queer woman whose appearance, identity etc. is seen as feminine as opposed to butch. Near-synonym: lipstick lesbian (sometimes differentiated)
- A person whose gender is feminine-leaning, such as a feminine non-binary person. The same is true of Goddess Spirituality spaces which are predicated on Radical Feminist rhetorics about Nature and the embodied experience – even those spaces which are open to trans women and nonbinary femmes may still fall back on language about the womb …
- 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.
adjective more femme · most femme
- Pertaining to a femme; feminine, female. Admittedly, Kiedis was concerned about the lack of femme rockers on the bill: the only women featured were in British band Lush, who would open each day's festivities before a few hundred curious onlookers.
- Effeminate (of a man).
- Characteristic of a feminine lesbian or queer woman. Her style was more femme than butch.
verb femmes · femming · femmed
- To feminize. […] a fear of being shamed and accused by other men of being feminine or inadequately masculine. I sometimes use the term fear of being femmed to describe the general anxiety or homophobia that Kimmel describes. It is worth repeating that homophobia, or the fear of being femmed, is not necessarily a
