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femcee en · NOUN

Etymology

Blend of female + emcee.

Meanings

1. A female host of a television show.
   • Why was Emerson a failure in 1940s Hollywood but a blazing success as a femcee on early 1950s television? 2008, Christine Becker, It’s the Pictures That Got Small: Hollywood Film Stars on 1950s Television, Wesleyan University Press, →ISBN, page 80:
   • Francis, a regular panelist on What's My Line?, was a poised and dignified “femcee,” and she also served as the program's managing editor. 2015, Charles L. Ponce de Leon, That's the Way It Is: A History of Television News in America, The University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 34:
   • In addition to radiating personality, a femcee had to sell products. When she wasn't demonstrating a kitchen appliance, as Furness did in commercials, a femcee often hosted game shows, where the prizes were wonderful new consumer goods on display in department stores and on supermarket shelves. 2008, Catherine Gourley, Gidgets and Women Warriors: Perceptions of Women in the 1950s and 1960s, Twenty-First Century Books, →ISBN, page 48:
2. A female rapper.
   • She's been featured on dozens of rap and R & B tracks, and she's the only femcee [female MC] currently on the rap charts. 2010, Steve Jones, "Listen Up: Thank God for Nicki Minaj's Pink Friday", USA Today, 22 November 2010, quoted in Felicity Britton, Nicki Minaj: Conquering Hip-Hop, Twenty-First Century Books (2013), page 38
   • […] to arguably rap's greatest emcees Tupac Shakur and the Notorious B.I.G. and femcee Lauryn Hill. 2009, Dalton Higgins, Hip Hop World, Groundwood Books, →ISBN, page 67:
   • The most well-known Tanzanian femcee to live abroad is Rah-P, who continues to live in Houston, Texas. 2014, Msia Kibona Clark, “Gender Representations among Tanzanian Female Emcees”, in Misa Kibona Clark, Mickie Mwanzia Koster, editors, Hip Hop and Social Change in Africa: Ni Wakati, Lexington Books, →ISBN, page 151:

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