femme fan

Noun

femme fan (plural femme fans or femme fen)

1. (dated, slang) A female fan, particularly of science fiction.
   • Here was a picture whose screen fortunes must have caused much uncertainty as to the femme fan reaction. As it turns out all the signs are that the woman angle is favorable and that sets the picture for better than average money at the box office1931 February 18, Alfred Rushford Greason, “Dracula”, in Variety
   • Samuel Merwin, Jr., editor of Thrilling Wonder Stories, said much the same when he lamented in the December, 1946 (p. 100) that he didn't have a letter from a "femme fan" to publish that month and encouraged his female readers to send in letters.1946 December, Eric Leif Davin, quoting Samuel Merwin, Jr., Partners in Wonder, published 2006, →ISBN

   Synonyms:

   fangirl, fanne, femfan