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femcel

Syllables: fem·cel/ˈfɛmˌsɛl/

femcel noun: a female incel.

Noun

femcel (plural femcels)

  1. (incel slang) A female incel.
    • Fiona, a femcel I speak to on Reddit, has a similar outlook on misogyny within the incel community.2018 December 5, Nick Chester, “Meet the women of the incel movement”, in Huck
    • While male incel culture has been exhaustively analysed, femcels have largely been ignored.2020 February 19, Arwa Mahdawi, “Why do we only care about incels when they are men?”, in The Guardian
  2. (Internet, broadly, ironic, sometimes) A woman associated with and/or adjacent to the incel aesthetics or other connotations.

Forms of femcel

pluralfemcels

Origin of femcel

From female + -cel

Words formed from femcel

Questions about femcel

What does femcel mean?
Femcel means a female incel.
What part of speech is femcel?
Femcel is a noun.
How do you pronounce femcel?
Femcel is pronounced /ˈfɛmˌsɛl/.
What is the plural of femcel?
The plural of femcel is femcels.

Words near femcel in the dictionary

  1. femby
  2. fembys
  3. femcare
  4. femcee
  5. femcees
  6. femcel
  7. femcelcore
  8. femceldom
  9. femceldoms
  10. femcels
  11. femcirc

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