different between fem vs wem
fem
English
Etymology
Clipping of feminine
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /f?m/
- Rhymes: -?m
Noun
fem (plural fems)
- (LGBT, uncommon) Synonym of femme
- Antonym: butch
- 2014, Elizabeth Lapovsky Kennedy, Madeline D. Davis, Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold: The History of a Lesbian Community, Routledge (?ISBN)
- 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.
- (colloquial, sometimes derogatory) A feminine or effeminate person.
- 2014, D Shuckerow, Take off your masc: The hegemonic gay male's gender performance on Grindr, quoting someone on Grindr:
- "Versatile, but love to bottom [...] No divas or fems. Not homophobic at all, just my personal preference."
- 2018, Luis Menéndez-Antuña, Thinking Sex with the Great Whore: Deviant Sexualities and Empire in the Book of Revelation, Routledge (?ISBN):
- [...] 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, ...
- 2014, D Shuckerow, Take off your masc: The hegemonic gay male's gender performance on Grindr, quoting someone on Grindr:
Adjective
fem (comparative more fem, superlative most fem)
- (colloquial) Feminine, effeminate.
- Antonym: masc
- (LGBT) Synonym of femme
- Antonym: butch
- 2007, Cameron McCarthy, Globalizing Cultural Studies: Ethnographic Interventions in Theory, Method, and Policy, Peter Lang (?ISBN), page 79:
- Dozens of queers, including female to male/male to female transsexuals, leathers, bears and bisexuals, butch and fem lesbians, […]
Anagrams
- EFM, EMF, MEF, emf
Catalan
Etymology 1
From Latin fimum.
Noun
fem m (plural fems)
- dung
- (chiefly in the plural) manure (animal excrement used as fertilizer)
Related terms
- femar
- femta
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the main entry.
Verb
fem
- first-person plural present indicative form of fer
- first-person plural present subjunctive form of fer
- first-person plural imperative form of fer
Further reading
- “fem” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “fem” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
- “fem” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “fem” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Danish
Etymology
From Old Norse fimm, from Proto-Germanic *fimf, from Proto-Indo-European *pénk?e (“five”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?f?m?]
Numeral
fem
- five
Elfdalian
Etymology
From Old Norse fimm, from Proto-Germanic *fimf. Cognate with Swedish fem.
Numeral
fem
- five
French
Etymology
English femme, fem (with the rarer spelling borrowed to avoid ambiguity with French femme (“woman”)).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /f?m/
Noun
fem f (plural fems)
- a femme (feminine queer woman) (contrast butch)
- 2007, Wendy Delorme, Quatrième génération, Bernard Grasset, pages 23-24:
- Pour faire simple, une fem (prononcer « faime ») c'est une gouine qui n'a rien contre les jupes, les talons hauts, le vernis à ongles et le maquillage. […] On confond parfois les fems avec les lipstick lesbiennes, les charmantes saphiques éthérées comme on en a vu à la fin des années 90 dans les pubs Dior, Benetton et Versace. […] Les fems ont ça de différent des lipstick lesbiennes que notre féminité n'est pas un passe-droit pour d'intégrer, mais au contraire le drapeau de la subversion.
- 2007, Wendy Delorme, Quatrième génération, Bernard Grasset, pages 23-24:
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Old Norse fimm (“five”), from Proto-Germanic *fimf, ultimately from *pémpe, variant of Proto-Indo-European *pénk?e.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /f?m/
Numeral
fem
- five
Derived terms
Related terms
- femte
References
- “fem” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From Old Norse fimm (“five”)
Numeral
fem
- five
Derived terms
- femdel
- femkamp
- femkant
- tjuefem
Related terms
- femte
References
- “fem” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Romansch
Alternative forms
- (Rumantsch Grischun) fim
- (Puter, Vallader) füm
Etymology
From Latin f?mus.
Noun
fem m
- (Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Surmiran) smoke
Swedish
Etymology
From Old Norse fimm (“five”), from Proto-Germanic *fimf, ultimately from *pémpe, variant of Proto-Indo-European *pénk?e.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /f?m/
Numeral
fem
- five
Coordinate terms
Related terms
See also
- noll, ett, två, tre, fyra, fem, sex, sju, åtta, nio, tio, elva, tolv
References
- fem in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
Volapük
Etymology
Borrowed from English fermentation.
Noun
fem (nominative plural fems)
- fermentation
Declension
fem From the web:
- what female character trope are you
- what fema means
- what female has the most grammys
- what fema stands for
- what feminism means
- what female celebrity am i
- what female marvel character are you
- what female anime character are you
wem
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /w?m/
Etymology
From Middle English wem, wemme, from Old English wamm (“stain, spot, scar, disgrace, defect, defilement, sin, evil, crime, injury, loss, hurt, misfortune”), from Proto-Germanic *wammaz (“stain, spot”), from Proto-Indo-European *wemh?- (“to spew, vomit”). Cognate with Icelandic vamm (“loss, damage”), Latin vom? (“vomit”, verb) (English vomit), Ancient Greek ???? (emé?, “I spew”) (English emesis), Lithuanian vemti (“to vomit”), Sanskrit ???? (vamati, “to vomit”)
Alternative forms
- weam, weem
- wame, wan (Scotland)
Noun
wem (plural wems)
- (Britain dialectal) A spot, stain, or mark; (by extension) a (moral) blemish or fault.
- 1822, sir Walter Scott (bart [novels, collected]), Historical romances of the author of Waverley, page 513:
- "It is even so," he added, as he gazed on the Sub-Prior with astonishment; "neither wem nor wound — not so much as a rent in his frock!"
- 1822, sir Walter Scott (bart [novels, collected]), Historical romances of the author of Waverley, page 513:
Derived terms
- wemless
- wemmy
Anagrams
- MWE, Mew, mew
German
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ve?m/
Pronoun
wem
- (interrogative) dative of wer, (to) whom (indirect object).
Further reading
- “wem” in Duden online
wem From the web:
- what women want
- what women want cast
- what women want in a man
- what women want soundtrack
- what women want imdb
- what women find attractive in men
- what women want parents guide
- what women want trailer