English

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Etymology 1

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Likely from Old Norse fimr (nimble, agile).[1]

Adjective

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femmer (comparative more femmer, superlative most femmer)

  1. (Northern England) Thin, fragile.

Etymology 2

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From femme +‎ -er.

Adjective

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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

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  1. ^ Hoy, Albert Lyon (1952) An Etymological Glossary of the East Yorkshire Dialect, University of Michigan (PhD thesis), page 177

Danish

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Noun

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femmer c (singular definite femmeren, plural indefinite femmere)

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

Inflection

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Declension of femmer
common
gender
singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative femmer femmeren femmere femmerne
genitive femmers femmerens femmeres femmernes

See also

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Playing cards in Danish · kort, spillekort (layout · text)
             
es toer treer firer femmer sekser syver
             
otter nier tier knægt, bonde dame, dronning konge joker

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