Femme Fatale Edit Meaning

1.

A woman with both intelligence and sex appeal that uses these skills to manipulate poor helpless men into doing what she wants. May cause death.

She's a femme fatale.

See schmuck

2.

A beautiful, seductive, and usually evil female character in drama and literature. She is usually shown as a cruel, man-eating seductress. (Straight) men fall victim to her beauty and are eventually brought to ruin by her. The femme fatale is often a secret agent and/or a spy.

Another word for femme fatale is vamp; due to the fact that the femme fatale is often a sexual vampire, the term "vamp" stuck when introduced by the silent movies.

The femme fatale is usually played by a strong mezzo-sopranoin operaand musical theater.

Femme fatales show up often in film noir, James Bond stories, and murder mysteries.

They are often much stronger and more cunning characters than their foils; the often inept damsel in distress and the sweet, fawn-eyed, but naive ingenue.

See vamp, cocktease, temptress, sexy, virgin, ingenue

3.

A seductive, intelligent, witty and classy female assassin who goes predominantly against male targets who are lured into following her because she acts like a cock tease, but quickly meet their deaths when they least suspect it.

The term has become slightly overused/extended to include any woman who shows even the slightest hint of being femme fatale, or wearing black leather, to describe herself.

That femme fatale I used to call my girllfriend. stuck a gun in my nuts and threatened to give me a .44 calibre vasectomy. So I bitch slapped her.

See Gumba Gumba

4.

a woman who manipulates men to do her dirty work

See tori