zirself
English
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɛlf
Pronoun
zirself (the third person singular, gender-neutral, personal pronoun) (nonstandard)
- (reflexive) zir; the gender-neutral object of a verb or preposition that also appears as the subject
- 2002, Louise, “Anyone want to introduce zirself before APC9?”, in alt.polyamory (Usenet):
- 2002, Lorremiddy, “Today is a great day.”, in soc.singles.moderated (Usenet):
- I'm trying to point out that his 'help' would be seriously damaging to a person who lacks the ability to fix zirself through a sheer act of will.
- 2007, Sherryl Vint, Bodies of tomorrow: technology, subjectivity, science fiction, page 213:
- This is the pronoun that Carter uses to describe zirself.
- 2007, Colette Phair, Nightmare in Silicon: A Novel:
- "End," zie said to zirself. Recalling the dream's authors, zie thought, At least they can still have them... Zie couldn't imagine a single thing.
- (emphatic) ze; an intensive repetition of the gender-neutral subject, often used to indicate the exclusiveness of that person as the only satisfier of the predicate
Derived terms
- zirselves
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