fem

plural fems

1. uncommonSynonym of femme.

   Oral history gave them an opportunity to share their vision of the world across generations, while giving us a chance to imagine the pleasure and pain of daily life for butches and fems in an earlier period.

   2014, Elizabeth Lapovsky Kennedy, Madeline D. Davis, Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold: The History of a Lesbian Community, Routledge, →ISBN

   Synonyms: femme · Antonyms: butch

2. colloquialderogatorysometimesA feminine or effeminate person.

   Versatile, but love to bottom … No divas or fems. Not homophobic at all, just my personal preference.

   2014, D Shuckerow, Take off your masc: The hegemonic gay male's gender performance on Grindr, quoting someone on Grindr

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   [...] chasers looking for silver daddies, exec types for college jocks, straights for gays, fems for mascs, smooths for hairies, huskies for slims, blacks for Latinos, whites for Asians, straights for gays, white collars for blue collars, ...

   2018, Luis Menéndez-Antuña, Thinking Sex with the Great Whore: Deviant Sexualities and Empire in the Book of Revelation, Routledge, →ISBN

comparative more fem · superlative most fem

1. colloquialFeminine, effeminate.

   Antonyms: masc

2. Synonym of femme.

   Dozens of queers, including female to male/male to female transsexuals, leathers, bears and bisexuals, butch and fem lesbians, […]

   2007, Cameron McCarthy, Globalizing Cultural Studies: Ethnographic Interventions in Theory, Method, and Policy, Peter Lang, →ISBN, page 79

   Synonyms: femme · Antonyms: butch

plural FEMs

1. abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountablemicroscopyInitialism of field emission microscopy.
2. abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountablebusinessInitialism of front end module.
3. abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountableengineeringInitialism of finite element method.

1. PhilippineabbreviationinitialismgovernmentInitialism of Ferdinand Marcos, 9th President of the Philippines.

   Synonyms: FEA