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femmy

femmy adjective: resembling or characteristic of a femme (a feminine gay man or lesbian).

Adjective

femmy (comparative more femmy, superlative most femmy)

  1. (informal) Resembling or characteristic of a femme (a feminine gay man or lesbian).
    • There's a new "performer" out called Tiny Tim. I'd heard quite a few things about him: guy with real long hair, real femmy.1967-1969, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure
    • Talks about world affairs, women music concerts, being held by a sexy fat dyke who is femmy and over 30.1985 April 20, “Would You Like (personal advertisement)”, in Gay Community News, page 13

Forms of femmy

comparativemore femmy
superlativemost femmy
alternative formfemme-y

Origin of femmy

From femme + -y.

Questions about femmy

What does femmy mean?
Femmy means resembling or characteristic of a femme (a feminine gay man or lesbian).
What part of speech is femmy?
Femmy is an adjective.

Words near femmy in the dictionary

  1. femmies
  2. femming
  3. femminiello
  4. femmunist
  5. femmunists
  6. femmy
  7. femocracies
  8. femocracy
  9. femocrat
  10. femocratic
  11. femocrats

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