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 […]

Danish

Noun

femmer c (singular definite femmeren, plural indefinite femmere)

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

References

• “femmer” in Den Danske Ordbog