hirself
/hiɹˈsɛlf/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
pron
Hir, themselves; gender-neutral third-person singular object of a verb or preposition that also appears as the subject, coordinate with gendered himself and herself.
pron
Sie; an intensive repetition of a gender-neutral subject, often used to indicate exclusiveness of that person as the only satisfier of a predicate.
Example Sentences
- "It is here that Scratch has found hirself, bored out of hir mind but unable to sleep."
- "Hir nostrils flared, and s/he stopped where s/he was, balancing hirself on hir toes without thought, as if poising hirself to make some sort of attack on whoever was there."
- "The working person discovered that hir own body belonged, not to the state or to the moralist or to the authoritarian doctor, but to hirself."
- "Alas, S/He then remembered S/He had created Hirself to be omnisciently all-knowing and all-seeing, so there were no possibilities S/He didn't already know."
- "Ze changed hir name to one of those New Testament names, and re-fashioned hirself into a soft, puffy, half-finished hermaphrodite nicknamed, The Pop n' Fresh Doe."
- "A harrowing series of violent and transphobic confrontations (including some with hir parents) drives Ludo to attempt to kill hirself by going to sleep in a freezer."
Etymology
Word Breakdown
Phrases
other attested gender-neutral pronouns
Frequently Paired Words
other attested gender-neutral pronouns