femmer

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femmer (comparative more femmer, superlative most femmer)

1. (Northern England) Thin, fragile.

femme +‎ -er

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 […]

femmer c (singular definite femmeren, plural indefinite femmere)

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

• “femmer” in Den Danske Ordbog