femsymp
femsymp noun: a person who sympathizes with the aims and beliefs of feminists.
Noun
femsymp (plural femsymps)
- A person who sympathizes with the aims and beliefs of feminists.
- Nothing is less persuasive than a tirade from a rigidly orthodox heretic. I'm a sympathizer, a femsymp if you will, but some feminists come on so abrasive they alarm even me. I can only lament the impression they must make on the undecided.1974, Jane Howard, A Different Woman, page 380
- A friend of mine says that this is because women have been systematically excluded by a hard core of "good old boys," but that strikes me as knee-jerk femsymp rhetoric, and anyway it doesn't change the facts.1991, Keyboard, volume 17, numbers 7-12, page 7
Forms of femsymp
| plural | femsymps |
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Origin of femsymp
From feminist sympathizer; modelled on earlier comsymp.
Questions about femsymp
- What does femsymp mean?
- Femsymp means a person who sympathizes with the aims and beliefs of feminists.
- What part of speech is femsymp?
- Femsymp is a noun.
- What is the plural of femsymp?
- The plural of femsymp is femsymps.
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