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Seme vs Feme - What's the difference?

seme | feme |

As a verb seme

is .

As a noun feme is

(a mediaeval juridical institution).

seme

English

Etymology 1

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Noun

(en-noun)
  • (linguistics, semiotics) Anything which serves for any purpose as a substitute for an object of which it is, in some sense, a representation or sign.
    • Related terms
    * semantics * semiotics

    Etymology 2

    Verb

    • Etymology 3

    Noun

    (head)

    • Etymology 4

    Adjective

    (head)
  • * , I.46:
    • I bear Azure seme of trefoiles, a Lions Paw in fæce, Or, armed Gules.

    Etymology 5

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    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • (Japanese fiction) An active or dominant male character in a same-sex relationship; a top.
  • * 2008 , Dru Pagliassotti, "Better Than Romance? Japanese BL Manga and the Subgenre of Male/Male Romantic Fiction", in Boys' Love Manga: Essays on the Sexual Ambiguity and Cross-Cultural Fandom of the Genre (eds. Antonia Levi, Mark McHarry & Dru Pagliassotti), McFarland & Company (2008), ISBN 9780786441952, page 73:
  • * 2010 , Pentabu, My Girlfriend's a Geek , Volume 1, Yen Press (2012), ISBN 9780316221801, unnumbered page:
    • Sebas has always been the seme .
  • * 2011 , Robin E. Brenner & Snow Wildsmith, "Love through a DIfferent Lens: Japanese Homoerotic Manga through the Eyes of American Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender and Other Sexualities Readers", in Mangatopia: Essays on Manga and Anime in the Modern World (eds. Timothy Perper & Martha Cornog), Libraries Unlimited (2011), ISBN 9781591589099, page 97:
    • The seme is larger, stronger, and more traditionally masculine, while the uke is smaller, weaker, and more feminine.
    Antonyms
    * uke

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    feme

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (legal, historical) A woman.
  • * 1825 , Westminster Hall: Or, Professional Relics and Anecdotes of the Bar, Bench and Woolsack , Henry Roscoe and Thomas Roscoe
    • TRESPASS FOR INTERMEDDLING WITH A FEME .
    There are some curious decisions in the old books regarding this point of law, with which it may be useful to be acquainted. In Br. Ab. Tresp.'' 40, it is said that a man may aid a feme''' who falls upon the ground from a horse, and so if she be sick, and the same if her baron would murder her. And the same ''per Rede'' if the '''feme''' would kill herself. And ''per Fineux'' a man may conduct a '''feme''' on a pilgrimage. So where a '''feme''' is going to market, it is lawful for another to suffer her to ride behind him on his horse to market. (''Br. Ab. Tresp.'' 207.) And if a '''feme''' says that she is in jeopardy of her life by her baron, and prays him (a stranger) to carry her to a justice of the peace, he may lawfully do it. (''Br. Ab. Tresp.'' 207.) But where any '''feme is out of the way, it is not lawful for a man to take her to his house, if she was not in danger of being lost in the night, or being drowned with water. (''Br. Ab. Tresp. 213.)

    Derived terms

    * feme covert * feme sole

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