femmer

English

Etymology 1

Likely from Old Norse fimr (“nimble, agile”).

Adjective

femmer (comparative more femmer, superlative most femmer)

1. (Northern England) Thin, fragile.

Etymology 2

femme +‎ -er

Adjective

femmer

1. comparative form of femme: 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.

   • 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 […]

References

Danish

Noun

femmer c (singular definite femmeren, plural indefinite femmere)

1. five (the card rank between four and six)
2. (slang) 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