femmer
English
Etymology 1
Likely from Old NorseCategory:English terms derived from Old Norse#FEMMER fimr (“nimble, agile”).[1]
Adjective
femmer (comparative more femmer, superlative most femmer)Category:English lemmas#FEMMERCategory:English adjectives#FEMMERCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#FEMMERCategory:Pages with entries#FEMMERCategory:Pages with 2 entries#FEMMER
Etymology 2
From femme + -erCategory:English terms suffixed with -er (comparative)#FEMMER.
Adjective
femmerCategory:English non-lemma forms#FEMMERCategory:English comparative adjectives#FEMMERCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#FEMMERCategory:Pages with entries#FEMMERCategory:Pages with 2 entries#FEMMER
- comparative form of femmeCategory:English comparative adjectives#FEMMER: more femme
- 1983, Philip Blumstein, Pepper Schwartz, American Couples: Money, Work, Sex, William Morrow & Company, page 451:
- If we see couples into butch-femme relationships, we go, "Oh, yick!" GRACE: Perhaps I'm a little butchier than she is and she's a little femmer. We both cook. I'm more of a breakfast cook and she's more of a dinner cook.Category:English terms with quotations#FEMMER
- 1989, John Rechy, The Sexual Outlaw: A Documentary : a Non-fiction Account, with Commentaries, of Three Days and Nights in the Sexual Underground, Grove Press, →ISBN, page 177:
- And ever-loving Lesbians, some butcher than even the butch muscled men, some femmer than the manikins in the Frederick's of Hollywood windows; yes, and the older gays — homosexuals, please! —are here, though not as many […]Category:English terms with quotations#FEMMER
References
- ↑ Hoy, Albert Lyon (1952), An Etymological Glossary of the East Yorkshire Dialect, University of Michigan (PhD thesis), page 177
Danish
Alternative forms
Etymology
From fem (“five”) + -erCategory:Danish terms suffixed with -er#FEMMER.
Noun
femmer c (singular definite femmeren, plural indefinite femmere)Category:Danish lemmas#FEMMERCategory:Danish nouns#FEMMERCategory:Danish nouns with red links in their headword lines#FEMMERCategory:Danish entries with incorrect language header#FEMMERCategory:Danish common-gender nouns#FEMMERCategory:Pages with entries#FEMMERCategory:Pages with 2 entries#FEMMER
- five (in dice or cards)
- five (person or thing that is number five in a system, e.g.bus #5)
- (slangCategory:Danish slang#FEMMER) five kroner
Inflection
See also
| Playing cards in Danish · kort, spillekort (layout · text) | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| es | toer | treer | firer | femmer | sekser | syver |
| otter | nier | tier | knægt, bonde | dame, dronning | konge | joker |
References
- “femmer” in Den Danske Ordbog