femmer
English
Etymology 1
Likely from Old Norse fimr (“nimble, agile”).[1]
Adjective
femmer (comparative more femmer, superlative most femmer)
Etymology 2
Adjective
femmer
- comparative form of femme: more femme
- 1983, Philip Blumstein, Pepper Schwartz, American Couples: Money, Work, Sex, William Morrow & Company, page 451:
- If we see couples into butch-femme relationships, we go, "Oh, yick!" GRACE: Perhaps I'm a little butchier than she is and she's a little femmer. We both cook. I'm more of a breakfast cook and she's more of a dinner cook.
- 1989, John Rechy, The Sexual Outlaw: A Documentary : a Non-fiction Account, with Commentaries, of Three Days and Nights in the Sexual Underground, Grove Press, →ISBN, page 177:
- And ever-loving Lesbians, some butcher than even the butch muscled men, some femmer than the manikins in the Frederick's of Hollywood windows; yes, and the older gays — homosexuals, please! —are here, though not as many […]
References
- ^ Hoy, Albert Lyon (1952) An Etymological Glossary of the East Yorkshire Dialect, University of Michigan (PhD thesis), page 177
Danish
Alternative forms
Etymology
Noun
femmer c (singular definite femmeren, plural indefinite femmere)
- five (in dice or cards)
- five (person or thing that is number five in a system, e.g.bus #5)
- (slang) five kroner
Inflection
common gender |
singular | plural | ||
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indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
nominative | femmer | femmeren | femmere | femmerne |
genitive | femmers | femmerens | femmeres | femmernes |
See also
Playing cards in Danish · kort, spillekort (layout · text) | ||||||
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es | toer | treer | firer | femmer | sekser | syver |
otter | nier | tier | knægt, bonde | dame, dronning | konge | joker |
References
- “femmer” in Den Danske Ordbog