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

  1. (Northern EnglandCategory:Northern England English#FEMMER) Thin, fragile.

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

  1. 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

  1. 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

  1. five (in dice or cards)
  2. five (person or thing that is number five in a system, e.g.bus #5)
  3. (slangCategory:Danish slang#FEMMER) five kroner

Inflection

Declension of femmer
common
gender
singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative femmer femmeren femmere femmerne
genitive femmers femmerens femmeres femmernes

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
Category:da:Card games

References

Category:Danish common-gender nouns Category:Danish lemmas Category:Danish nouns Category:Danish nouns with red links in their headword lines Category:Danish slang Category:Danish terms suffixed with -er Category:English adjectives Category:English comparative adjectives Category:English lemmas Category:English non-lemma forms Category:English terms derived from Old Norse Category:English terms suffixed with -er (comparative) Category:English terms with quotations Category:Northern England English Category:Pages with 2 entries Category:Pages with entries Category:da:Card games