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(informal) Resembling or characteristic of a femme (a feminine gay man or lesbian)..
1967-1969, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure There's a new "performer" out called Tiny Tim. I'd heard quite a few things about him: guy with real long hair, real femmy.
Talks about world affairs, women music concerts, being held by a sexy fat dyke who is femmy and over 30.
Why do I wear a biker jacket? I like making people scared of me. I get treated better by the servers in the coffeehouses in the gaybourhood. Not to mention getting looked at by the dykes/bykes. :) Without the jacket, I get pushed around more on the subway, people don't get out of my way on crowded sidewalks, and men try to intimidate me -- I'm a wee femmy thing, most of the time.
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Femmy means (informal) Resembling or characteristic of a femme (a feminine gay man or lesbian)..
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1967-1969, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure There's a new "performer" out called Tiny Tim. I'd heard quite a few things about him: guy with real long hair, real femmy.
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