femcee

English

Etymology

Blend of female +‎ emcee.

Noun

femcee (plural femcees)

A female host of a television show.
- 2008, Christine Becker, It’s the Pictures That Got Small: Hollywood Film Stars on 1950s Television, Wesleyan University Press, →ISBN, page 80:
  Why was Emerson a failure in 1940s Hollywood but a blazing success as a femcee on early 1950s television?
- 2008, Catherine Gourley, Gidgets and Women Warriors: Perceptions of Women in the 1950s and 1960s, Twenty-First Century Books, →ISBN, page 48:
  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.
- 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:
  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.
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A female rapper.
- 2009, Dalton Higgins, Hip Hop World, Groundwood Books, →ISBN, page 67:
  […] to arguably rap's greatest emcees Tupac Shakur and the Notorious B.I.G. and femcee Lauryn Hill.
- 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), →ISBN, page 38:
  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.
- 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:
  The most well-known Tanzanian femcee to live abroad is Rah-P, who continues to live in Houston, Texas.
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