Likely fromOld Norsefimr(“nimble, agile”).[1]
femmer (comparativemorefemmer,superlativemostfemmer)
- (Northern England)Thin,fragile.
Fromfemme +-er.
femmer
- comparative form offemme: morefemme
1983, Philip Blumstein, Pepper Schwartz,American Couples: Money, Work, Sex, William Morrow & Company, page451: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 littlefemmer. 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, page177:And ever-loving Lesbians, some butcher than even the butch muscled men, somefemmer than the manikins in the Frederick's of Hollywood windows; yes, and the older gays — homosexuals, please! —are here, though not as many […]
- ^Hoy, Albert Lyon (1952)An Etymological Glossary of the East Yorkshire Dialect, University of Michigan (PhD thesis), page177
Fromfem(“five”) +-er.
femmer c (singular definitefemmeren,plural indefinitefemmere)
- five (in dice or cards)
- five (person or thing that is number five in a system, e.g.bus #5)
- (slang) fivekroner
