femcee

Noun

femcee (plural femcees)

1. A female host of a television show.
   • Why was Emerson a failure in 1940s Hollywood but a blazing success as a femcee on early 1950s television?2008, Christine Becker, It’s the Pictures That Got Small: Hollywood Film Stars on 1950s Television, Wesleyan University Press, →ISBN, page 80
   • In addition to radiating personality, a femcee had to sell products. When she wasn't demonstrating a kitchen appliance, as Furness did in commercials, a femcee often hosted game shows, where the prizes were wonderful new consumer goods on display in department stores and on supermarket shelves.2008, Catherine Gourley, Gidgets and Women Warriors: Perceptions of Women in the 1950s and 1960s, Twenty-First Century Books, →ISBN, page 48
2. A female rapper.
   • […] to arguably rap's greatest emcees Tupac Shakur and the Notorious B.I.G. and femcee Lauryn Hill.2009, Dalton Higgins, Hip Hop World, Groundwood Books, →ISBN, page 67
   • She's been featured on dozens of rap and R & B tracks, and she's the only femcee [female MC] currently on the rap charts.2010, Steve Jones, "Listen Up: Thank God for Nicki Minaj's Pink Friday", USA Today, 22 November 2010, quoted in Felicity Britton, Nicki Minaj: Conquering Hip-Hop, Twenty-First Century Books (2013)...