femme
/fɛm/ · noun
Meaning
- A woman; a wife; (now chiefly Canada, US) a young woman or girl.
- A lesbian or other queer woman whose appearance, identity etc. is seen as feminine as opposed to butch.
- A person whose gender is feminine-leaning, such as a feminine non-binary person.
- Pertaining to a femme; feminine, female.
- Effeminate (of a man).
- Characteristic of a feminine lesbian or queer woman.
Etymology / origin
Borrowed from French femme (“woman”). Doublet of feme, femina, and hembra.
- femme(French)→
- *dʰeh₁(y)-(ine-pro)→
- femme (English)
- Relations: root, bor
Related words
Descendant words
- fem(French) (bor)
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