femcel

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English

Etymology

From fem(ale) +‎ -cel; a relatively new consolidation.

Pronunciation

Noun

femcel (plural femcels)

  1. (incel slang) A female incel.
    Synonym: AFChick
    • 2018 December 5, Nick Chester, “Meet the women of the incel movement”, in Huck:
      Fiona, a femcel I speak to on Reddit, has a similar outlook on misogyny within the incel community.
    • 2020 February 19, Arwa Mahdawi, “Why do we only care about incels when they are men?”, in The Guardian:
      While male incel culture has been exhaustively analysed, femcels have largely been ignored.
    • 2021, Laura Bates, From Incels to Pickup Artists: The Truth about Extreme Misogyny and How it Affects Us All, unnumbered page:
      A “femcel support group” on Facebook, with over 800 members, offers a safe space for women who self-define as involuntarily celibate, […]
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:femcel.
  2. (loosely, Internet, slang, ironic) A woman associated with and/or adjacent to the incel "aesthetic", "vibe", or other connotations.

Usage notes

Apparently used colloquially with a peculiarly wide leniency in semantics.

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