hirs

S/he leaned forward and, to Selar's surprise, took the doctor's hand firmly between hirs.

1997 July 1, Peter David, Star Trek New Frontier (Book 1), Simon & Schuster, →ISBN:

She saw that Burgoyne was hefting hirs experimentally, sweeping it through the air. S/he twirled it around a few times, swung it back and forth.

2000, Peter David, Renaissance (Star Trek New Frontier: Excalibur #2), Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 157:

Ze takes my right hand in hirs and folds it into a fist.

2006 March 22, Leslie Feinberg, Drag King Dreams, New York: Carroll & Graf, →ISBN, →LCCN, LCC PS3556.E427 D73 2006, page 205:

(nonstandard) That which belongs to hir, theirs (singular). Possessive case of hir, used in place of a noun. Coordinate with his and hers.


hirself

head

hirself (a reflexive, third person singular, gender-neutral (or multigendered) personal pronoun)

en-pron

From hir + -self, following pattern of herself, himself, and itself.

The trouble starts when gender (identity) ceases to be a reference point for connecting with a living growing person and is substituted for the person hirself.

1997 December 18, Kate Bornstein, My Gender Workbook: How to Become a Real Man, a Real Woman, the Real You, or Something Else Entirely, London, New York: Routledge, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OL, LCC HQ1075.B69 1998, page 164:

OOC talk and actions are taken to represent the player hirself and help other players to form an image, however tentative it may be, of that player.

2002, Frank Schaap, The Words That Took Us There: Ethnography in a Virtual Reality, Amsterdam: Aksant Academic Publishers, →ISBN, →OL, page 90:

Ash hadn't experienced much of that hirself, but s/he assumed it could happen.

2003 April 1, Susan Wright, Slave Trade (Slave Trade Trilogy #1), Pocket Books, →ISBN, →OL, page 97:

(emphatic) Sie; an intensive repetition of a gender-neutral subject, often used to indicate exclusiveness of that person as the only satisfier of a predicate.


that one

"Which one do you want?" / "That one over there!"

A specified object, thing or person (especially one further away/over there or known or mentioned later). (This entry is a translation hub.)

az (t)

“-t” added if it’s the object of the verb, as in “I want that one”


everybody and their brother

everybody and his brother
everybody and his brother#English


everyone and their dog

"Mind you, this was years before everyone and their dog had a cell phone."

2009, Susan Case, That's a Dead One Alright, Tate Publishing, →ISBN, page 114:


zees

Pronunciation spelling
pronunciation spelling

Pronunciation spelling of this, representing primarily French-accented English.


thame

...And to charge thame hereto under the pain of rebellion and putting of thame to thr horne...

1797, Edinburgh Magazine: Or Literary Miscellany, (Please provide the book title or journal name), page 180:

...that we communicat with thame in nathing that may appeir to manteane or defend thame...

1846, Thomas M'Cri et al., Lives of the Scottish Reformers, page 190:


it self

[A]s the snow advanced vpon yᵉ poynts vertical of cacuminous mountains dissolveth and discoagulateth it self into humorous liquidity[.]

1597: John Hoskyns’ “A Tuftafffeta Speech”, printed in Sir Benjamin Rudyerd’s 1660 Le Prince d’Amour, and reprinted on page 100 of Louise Brown Osborn’s 1937 The Life, Letters, and Writings of John Hoskyns, 1566–1638 (published by the Yale University Press)

For Physis (as I said) is not the divine Understanding it self, but is as if you should conceive, an Artificers imagination separate from the Artificer, and left alone to work by it self without animadversion.

1647, Henry More, “[Philosophical Poems.] Notes upon Psychozoia.”, in Alexander B[alloch] Grosart, editor, The Complete Poems of Dr. Henry More (1614–1687) […] (Chertsey Worthies’ Library), [Edinburgh: […] Edinburgh University Press; Thomas and Archibald Constable, […]] for private circulation, published 1878, →OCLC, stanza 41, page 139, column 2:

The mind is its own place, and in it ſelf / Can make a Heav’n of Hell, a Hell of Heav’n.

1667, John Milton, “Book I”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, lines 254–255:


His Imperial Majesty

Her Imperial Majesty (alternative)
Your Imperial Majesty (alternative second-person)

(formal) he; him (in reference to a (male) emperor)


this and that

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"What have you been doing lately?" — "Oh, you know, this and that."

It’s amusing to learn from publicists and Meghan herself that the duchess’s artisan this-and-thats will be available in the Netflix brick-and-mortar stores opening this year.

2025 April 3, Marina Hyde, “It’s With Love, Meghan – not just a TV show but a landmark piece of art. And not in a good way”, in The Guardian:

呢样𠮶样

ni¹ joeng⁶ go² joeng⁶; nei¹ joeng⁶ go² joeng⁶


smthng

Thirdly (and this is what seems so simple, yet is the most difficult) need to create a human story, smthng about which you can’t say: and then Sacha fell in love with Boria, and so forth.[…]in Benoît’s village, and finish either by their leaving (but that would be too good to be true) or by smthng that shows the friendship between Jean-Marie / Hubert (first I had thought: love scene Jean-Marie & Brigitte, then feared it would be too banal).

2008, Olivier Corpet, Garrett White, editors, Woman of Letters: Irène Némirovsky and Suite Française, Five Ties Publishing, Inc., pages 146 and 148:

Can I say smthng? With yr permission?[…]Ok. It’s smthng soft.

2012, Paromita Vohra, “The Romantic Customer”, in Altaf Tyrewala, editor, Mumbai Noir, Akashic Books, →ISBN, part I (Bomb⸝ay), pages 41–42:

Omg, thank you. Thank you sm. Can send smthng rn.

2019, Gemma Files, “The Puppet Motel”, in Ellen Datlow, editor, Echoes: The Saga Anthology of Ghost Stories, New York, N.Y.: Saga Press, →ISBN, page 327:

(Internet slang, text messaging) Abbreviation of something.


othersome

From Middle English oþer-sum, equivalent to other + some.

Othersome will say, that by the force of it [imagination], bodies are sometimes removed from their places.


wich

Droitwich was then clearly more important than any of the Cheshire wiches; indeed the two most northerly of them were reported in 1086 to be "utterly waste", while Nantwich farm was worth only £10 a year.

(Can we date this quote?), Edward Hughes, Studies in Administration and Finance 1558-1825, Manchester University Press, page 21:

A wich town, particularly one of several former salt mining towns in Cheshire with a name ending -wich.


theirselves

head

theirselves (singular himself or hisself or herself)

himself (singular)
hisself (singular)
herself (singular)

From their + -selves, patterned on ourselves and similar terms.

Or would they have it believed, that there is in their ſelves ſome ſuperior ſanctity, ſome peculiar privilege, by which theſe things are lawful to them, which are unlawful to all the world beſides?

1776, Jeremy Bentham, “A Short Review of the Declaration”, in John Lind, An Anſwer to the Declaration of the American Congress, London: Thomas Cadell, page 121:

Horace: "Look, Jasper! Do you supposed they disguised theirselves?"

1961, Bill Peet, One Hundred and One Dalmatians, Walt Disney Productions:

(nonstandard) Alternative form of themselves.


yere

What I want ye to remember, as the bullets come out through yere foreheads, is […]

2001, Martin McDonagh, The Lieutenant of Inishmore, Scene 8:

The Rubberbandits took to their Twitter (@Rubberbandits) on Tuesday in the wake of the Fringe fest’s apparent typo saying that, “@edfringe As much as we'd love to swear allegiance to Lizzie. Could ye change our country of origin from "England" to Ireland on yere site?” (sic)

2012 Kerry O'Shea Edinburgh’s Fringe festival thinks The Rubberbandits are English IrishCentral 27 July 2012

"I've been listening to yere s**** there all day about how great ye are," he told them. "Who the hell do ye think ye are with yere two All-Irelands and one ambush?"

2012 July 28, Christy O'Connor, “The first great rivalry of the 21st century”, in Irish Independent:

(Ireland) your (plural); of ye, belonging to ye


one and all

Therefore my friends, stand to it one and all, refuse this filthy trash.

1724, Jonathan Swift, “Drapier's Letters”, in 1:

Now this doubloon was of purest, virgin gold […] and however wanton in their sailor ways, one and all, the mariners revered it as the white whale's talisman.

1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 99, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:

[M]en of every condition […] had laid their hearts at her feet. One and all, they had been compelled to pick them up and take them elsewhere.

1920, P. G. Wodehouse, chapter 2, in The Coming of Bill:

Later American literary stars like Hemingway, Faulkner, Sinclair Lewis and John Steinbeck, Nobel Prize-winners one and all, never had more than a spoonful of the great gouts of fame that Twain — and Mrs. Stowe, for that matter — enjoyed everywhere in the world.

2010 April 24, Tom Wolfe, “Op-Ed Contributor: Faking West, Going East”, in New York Times, retrieved 2013-11-26:

(idiomatic) The entire set of persons or things within a given domain, considered both as separate individuals and collectively.


hissen

It 'ud be a sight better if he kept they to hissen.

1902, Joseph Wright, The English Dialect Dictionary, Being the Complete Vocabulary of All Dialect Words Still in Use, Or Known to Have Been in Use During the Last Two Hundred Years: H-L:

1893-1937, J. Keighley Snowden, "A Ghost Slayer", in A Bottomless Grave: and Other Victorian Tales of Terror
It rade ower my father t' week afore he henged hissen—Aw mind him t—tellin' on 't.


your ass

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A: My dog ate my homework.

B: Your ass.

(idiomatic, emphatic, colloquial, vulgar) A sarcastic expression of disbelief.


shawty

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These are the things that separate a date from a fiancee, a shawty from a wife, a one-night stand from a lifetime commitment.

Look, I had to pay the shawties that helped me, and after I paid them, yo' cut is thirty-two grand.

2006, Nikki Turner, Chunichi, Roy Glenn, Girls from Da Hood:

Shawty wanna stay in my bachelor pad / But I'm a bachelor and I'm happy

2008, Gucci Mane, “Bachelor Pad”, in The Movie:

2009, Marie Antionette, A Girl Named Job
My first affair was with my shawty, Baby Boy. I called him that because he was the oldest of two siblings, but his Mama treated him like her baby boy!

(chiefly African-American Vernacular, hip-hop) Alternative form of shorty (“young woman, girlfriend”).


thyselves

From thy + -selves, apparently by analogy with yourselves.

Therefore I call unto thee, repent before me. Humble thyselves. Humble thyselves before me that I may forgive thy sin.

a. 1982, Bobbi Morris (?), quoted in Steven M. Tipton, Getting Saved from the Sixties: Moral Meaning in Conversion and Cultural Change, University of California Press (1982), page 52

1993, Edward James Blakely and Sumner M. Sharp, Planners, Heal Thyselves: Planning Education, Educators, and Practitioners in the Next Century, University of California, Berkeley, Institute of Urban and Regional Planning.
[see title]

Know Thyselves

1999, Tom Hirschfeld, Business Dad: How Good Businessmen Can Make Great Fathers (and Vice Versa), Little, Brown and Company, published 2000, →ISBN, page 62:

(pseudo-archaic, nonstandard) Yourselves; a plural of the archaic pronoun thyself.


one and the same

Possibly a calque of Latin unus et idem.

Are the beautiful and the good one and the same?

(idiomatic) The selfsame person or thing. Used to emphasize the identity or equivalence of two things.


you all

y'all (alternative)
yo'll (alternative)
you-all (alternative)
youall (alternative)
you-alls (alternative)

I am really longing to see you “all”—as the Southerners say—and aren't you coming east this summer?

I ain't never been as far as you-all aim to go.

1946, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Cross Creek:

(idiomatic, chiefly Southern US, colloquial) You (with singular or plural referent); y'all.


nother

From Old English nōhwæþer. Compare neither, nauther.

(obsolete outside UK and Caribbean dialects) Neither.


nother

Variant of an other, another, rebracketed as a nother. Compare Middle English a noþer.

Executing it all well, with the feel, look and operation of a real luxury car, is a whole nother ball of wax.

2009 October 1, Don Chaikin, “Long-Term Test Cars: Azera, Sedon M35, Highlander Hybrid, Liberty Sport CRD, Cobalt SS”, in Jim Meigs, editor, Popular Mechanics, New York, N.Y.: The Hearst Corporation, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2013-10-01:

He has said elfsheen four nother ways — elfsheen, elfshine, elfshone, elfshyne.

2015, L. T. Wolf, The World King, →ISBN:

(chiefly US, informal) Different, other.


whosesoever

If Beals obtained merely the possession, by fraud practiced upon the plaintiff, with fraudulent intent to deprive it thereof, and to appropriate the machine to his own use, and, immediately upon getting possession of it, did in fact fraudulently appropriate it to his own use, these acts constituted a larceny of the machine, and plaintiff could retake it, in whosesoëver possession it might be.

1880, Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of the State of Wisconsin, with Tables of the Cases and Principal Matters, volume XLIX, Chicago: Callaghan & Company, pages 317–318:


youz

(slang, eye dialect) Alternative spelling of yous.


the same

You have a red Mercedes? I've got the same!


theirself

From their + -self, patterned on e.g. myself, ourself/ourselves and herself (construed as being formed from adjectival her).

1977, Lou Rawls, “Some Folks Never Learn”, Unmistakably Lou, Philadelphia International
Some folks never learn / They never learn / Learn how to be true to theirself.


eachother

The pilgrims to the heavenly Salem, who / By nature for eachother were design’d, / In this life oft are near, yet do not meet.

1826, Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock, “Klopstock's Messiah”, in G. H. C. Egestorff, transl., Der Messias, canto XIV, lines 94-6, page 427:

Lao Tse is seeking to make clear the relation of the unmanifested and the manifested Logos to eachother, as poles of the same Being.

1921 April, Charles Johnston, "Tao-Teh-King: An Interpretation of Lao Tse's Book of the Way and of Righteousness", part I (of VIII), in The Theosophical Quarterly, volume XVIII, The Theosophical Society, page 347

Our last night together! […] How are we going to cope with the absence of eachother?

2006, Karunkar Nair, Pebbles in the Sand, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 44:

(nonstandard) Alternative spelling of each other.


you-know-what

The name of something the speaker does not want to mention, but which is known, or very likely to be known, to the listener.


his nibs

Comes from early 19th century in literature. From the British, it was noticed that "nabs" was in use; from the Dutch was seen "nebs"

Two for his nibs.

(cribbage) A jack turned up by the dealer.


your servant

(archaic) Used as a greeting, especially to a lady.

(archaic) Used as a closing of a personal letter.


your servant

Calque of Biblical Hebrew עַבְדְּךָ (ʿaḇdəḵā) and עַבְדְּכֶם (ʿaḇdəḵem)

calque

(humble, archaic, chiefly in Bible translations) I, me


whichsoe'er

/ˌwɪtʃsəʊˈɛə/

/ˌwɪt͡ʃsoʊˈɛɹ/

/ˌʍɪt͡ʃsoʊˈɛɹ/

(poetic) Alternative spelling of whichsoever.


simi

A short sword or dagger used by the Kikuyu people.


hes

Jennie! Jennie! come an’ tell me thet the long-lost claim hes come back to Old Jack!

1882, James Jackson, Tom Terror, the Outlaw:

(nonstandard) Pronunciation spelling of has, representing dialectal English.


fele

From Middle English fele, from Old English feola, fela (“much, many, very”), from Proto-West Germanic *felu, from Proto-Germanic *felu (“very, much”), from Proto-Indo-European *pélh₁u (“many”).
Cognate with Scots fele (“many, much, great”), Dutch veel (“much, many”), German viel (“much, many”), Latin plūs (“more”), Ancient Greek πολύς (polús, “many”). Related to full, few.

feel (alternative)
feele (alternative)
fell (alternative)

For they bring in the substance of the Beere / That they drinken feele too good chepe, not dere.

1589, Richard Hakluyt, The Principall Navigations, Voiages, and Discoveries of the English Nation, […], London: […] George Bishop and Ralph Newberie, deputies to Christopher Barker, […], →OCLC:

(dialectal or obsolete) greatly, much, very


fele

en-adj

fele (comparative feler, superlative felest)

feler (comparative)
felest (superlative)
feel (alternative)
feele (alternative)
fell (alternative)

This cruel monstre, […] Infect with fell venoum;

So fele shippes this yere there ware / That moch losse for vnfreyght they bare.
So fele ships this year there were / that much loss for unfreight they bore.


nauther

en-adv

nauther (comparative more nauther, superlative most nauther)

more nauther (comparative)
most nauther (superlative)

From Old English nauþer, nawþer, from na + hwæþer.


yowe

yowes (plural)
yeo (alternative)
yoe (alternative)
yow (alternative)

From Middle English yowe, yeue, forms of ewe, from Old English eowu. Compare Scots cognate yowe.

The ram was marked wi' keel at the reet o' the tail an' the yowes upon their hips.

1902, James Thomson, Recollections of a Speyside parish:

(dialectal, UK, Scotland) A ewe; a female sheep.


wut

(Internet slang, nonstandard, eye dialect) What, both in its standard meaning as an interjection, but especially as a response to an outrageous or unexpected statement. This phrase became increasingly popular in the early 2000s due to internet culture.


xyrself

head

xyrself (the third person singular, gender-neutral, personal pronoun, the reflexive form of xe, feminine herself, masculine himself, neuter itself, plural themselves)

en-pron

xe (reflexive-of)
herself (feminine)
himself (masculine)
itself (neuter)
themselves (plural)

Xe accomplished it xyrself.

(emphatic, rare, nonstandard) xe; an intensive repetition of the gender-neutral subject, often used to indicate the exclusiveness of that person as the only satisfier of the predicate


anythink

'Well, mother told me to ride acrost and see if you wanted anythink.

1901, Henry Lawson, Joe Wilson and His Mates:

"Lost anythink, Matey?" said he.

1911, Herbert George Wells, The New Machiavelli:

Now, Alfred," she said, "you mind out for baby cryin', and if she should 'appen to want for anythink, just give a call to Mrs. Thomas through the next door."

1913, Henry W. Nevinson, Essays in Rebellion:

(UK) Pronunciation spelling of anything.


hym

This yere the kyng toke the Ile of Cipre; and the prynce of the same ile he lete folowe hym in sylver cheynes.

c. 1500, anonymous author, A Chronicle of London from 1089 to 1483:

If in thys p[ro]myst throng of future ill There may be found a way to anye good Of brave Orlando the great palladyne, My constant industry shall tyer the day And outwatche night but I will fynde it for hym; And yf to doe hym good-- Enter La Fue.

c. 1660, Unknown, “The Distracted Emperor”, in A Collection of Old English Plays, Vol. III:


nish

From German nichts (“nothing”) or possibly Yiddish נישט (nisht, “no, not”). Originally borrowed from Polari.

If you like the director you do it for nish, so Marcus Thompson got us all to do it for nothing.

1998 March 4, Janie Lawrence, quoting Ian Dury, “The Dury's Out”, in The Independent:

I've got nish to say to you. You can save your breath.

2017, Dreda Say Mitchell, Blood Mother: Flesh and Blood Trilogy Book Two, Hachette UK, →ISBN:

These fucking little smart arses download fucking tunes for nish.

2017 September 20, BBC Backstage Music Pass, Liam Gallagher (actor):


y'

Y' are brave, but the most uncrafty lad that I can think upon!

1888, Robert Louis Stevenson, The Black Arrow:

Y'r can turn out the place, boys, if y' think Monty or me had anything to do with his blasted wallet.

1946, Katharine Susannah Prichard, The roaring nineties: a story of the goldfields of Western Australia:

"Then what y'reckon y'gon' do?" the other repeated.

(informal, dialect, subject pronoun) you; ya; ye.


anyfink

"Anyfink 'ud make me puke this morning! Cuppa tea, that's what I want. Good strong cuppa tea."

1954, Bernard Ash, Silence For His Worship, page 124:


any old thing

Any old thing will do.


urself

(Internet slang, text messaging) yourself


we-uns

From we + uns, a form of ones representing an older pronunciation of it.

we'uns (alternative)
we'ins (alternative)

Then he come back to we-uns laughin'; sed the Yank offered him twenty dollars a month to go home to Maine with him, an' went on like a preacher […]

1892, Lippincott's Monthly Magazine: A Popular Journal of General Literature, page 62:

But Marshall Rutherford hain't no neighbour to we-uns. He hain't belongin' to Big Creek Gap. We hain't wantin' no more of Kennedy Poteet's stock in here, and we hain't aimin' to hev 'em.

1900, Emma Rayner, Visiting the Sin: A Tale of Mountain Life in Kentucky and Tennessee, page 293:

(US, Midwestern US and Appalachia) Us. (Compare us'uns.)


our asses

head

our asses (personal pronoun; the third person, (at least) nominative/objective/reflexive cases, singular)

en-pron

Our asses are always late.

(slang, vulgar, the third person singular) We.


zay

I know vat zay do.

1918, Randall Parrish, Wolves of the Sea:

He said, 'Students today, zay don't care about zee big issues.'

1998 March 27, William Upski Wimsatt, “Anonymous Benefactor”, in Chicago Reader:

Pronunciation spelling of they, usually signifying a foreign accent, often French or German.


zay

Wiz you to zay so many good zings to me, my heart shall be in ze paradise.

1868, F. Colburn Adams, The Von Toodleburgs:

Pronunciation spelling of say, usually signifying a foreign accent, often French or German.


yas

'Oh! yas, I smokes; but I durned sight d'ruther chaw.'

1862, Various, The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2 No 4, October, 1862:

"Yas, yas!" they cried, with broader grins and many nods.

1904 November, O. Henry [pseudonym; William Sydney Porter], Cabbages and Kings, New York, N.Y.: McClure, Phillips & Co., page 175:

It's nice, yas, and it's paid for.

1913, Horace Annesley Vachell, Bunch Grass:

(often African-American Vernacular, LGBTQ or valley girl, slang) Nonstandard spelling of yes.

often African-American Vernacular; LGBTQ or valley girl; often African-American Vernacular; LGBTQ or valley girl


yores

"Whut business is this here of yores?"

You leave that gun alone, and lemme tell you, stranger, while we're together, that I want to buy that pup of yores.

1921, William Patterson White, The Heart of the Range:

Scotty, yores is the hombre on the west, ridin' the pinto.

1930, Ward M. Stevens, Kid Wolf of Texas:


yees

"Oh, Mr. Munro, shure here's a card for yees," handing me a lady's card.

1873, Various, Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. XII. No. 30. September, 1873:

"Where does yees get the jug?"

Yere Granddaughter will marry and this house will be too big for the three of yees.

1912, Irene Elliott Benson, Ethel Hollister's Second Summer as a Campfire Girl:


s.t.

(chiefly grammar and lexicography) Abbreviation of something.


noöne

Receive us. We have wronged noöne, we have corrupted noöne, we have taken advantage of noöne.

1848, Jonathan Morgan, transl., The New Testament of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. […], stereotype edition, Portland, Or.: S. H. Colesworthy; […], II Corinthians 7:2, page 222, column 2:

However, the transcendence of 2#92;sqrt#123;2#125; was so difficult a problem that noöne in the audience would live to see its solution. Within a few years, [Carl Ludwig] Siegel had proven this transcendence!

1991, Craig Smoryński, “Weak Formal Theories of Arithmetic”, in Logical Number Theory I: An Introduction (Universitext), Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag, →DOI, →ISBN, page 269:


summet

The langer they gaze, still the mair they may wonder,
And aye, as they wonder, may fin summet new.

1805, R. Anderson, Ballads in the Cumberland Dialect, 105

(British, dialectal, obsolete) Alternative form of summat.


sbd.

(chiefly grammar and lexicography) Abbreviation of somebody.


s.o.

(chiefly grammar and lexicography) Abbreviation of someone.


yinz

tlb

(US, dialectal, especially Western Pennsylvania and Appalachia)

Contraction of you ones or ye ones. Compare you-uns, yens.

yins (alternative)
yuns (alternative)
yunz (alternative)

the list of other second-person pronouns in you


he/she

head

he/she (third person singular, plural they)

Ask a receptionist if he/she is not busy.

He or she; singular of they, used as a gender-neutral reference to the third person singular.


nuttin'

A doggy is nuttin' if he don't have a bone


sumet

...naw yaurs may git while they er young, an seaav sumet agayn they er aud.

1790, Ann Wheeler, The Westmorland Dialect, with the Adjacency of Lancashire & Yorkshire, in Four Familiar Dialogues, 59 (1821 ed.)

I laaid me dawn on a breaad scar an sean fel asleep, tul sumet weaakend me varra caad omme feace.

1839, Westmoreland and Cumberland Dialects: Dialogues, Poems, Songs, and Ballads, by Various Writers in the Westmoreland and Cumberland Dialects, John Russel Smith, section 35:


somepin

The Lawd's keepin' me here for somepin.

1936-1938, Work Projects Administration, Slave Narratives= A Folk History of Slavery in the United States:

My second husband was named Lee somepin or other.

1936-1938, Work Projects Administration, Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States:


somepody

"My goot woman, you must go to somepody else, I can't give away my monish."

1864, Alex St. Clair Abrams, The Trials of the Soldier's Wife:

Like as not ve vould shoost pe fools enough to kill somepody."

1903, Various, Modern Eloquence= Vol III, After-Dinner Speeches P-Z:

Say, somepody sthop dot!

1909, Edward Stratemeyer, The Rover Boys on Treasure Isle:


somepoty

'Nopoty loaf you, pot I will not exchange you for somepoty in ze worlt, One zing your Mutter pegs you, to rememper,' sayt she to me, 'learn vell, ant be efer one honest man; zen Got will not forsake you.'

a. 1942, C.J. Hogarth, transl., Boyhood:


whome

But potent is he against whome thei faught; for when thay wicked war in greatast securitie, then begane God to schaw his anger.

1566, John Knox, The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6):


your's

“The difference of our religions, my dear Oswald,” continued Corinna, “is the cause of that secret censure which you cannot help discovering to me. Your’s is serious and rigid—our’s, lively and tender.[”]

1807, [Germaine] de Staël Holstein, translated by D[ennis] Lawler, “[Book X. Holy week.] Chap[ter] V.”, in Corinna; or, Italy. […], volume III, London: […] Corri, […]; and sold by Colburn, […], and Mackenzie, […], →OCLC, page 52:

The Miss Webbs all play, and their father has not so good an income as your’s.

1813 January 27, [Jane Austen], chapter VI, in Pride and Prejudice: […], volume II, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 70:


ALCON

AERIAL PREPARATION OF THE BATTLEFIELD IS ESSENTIAL TO FUTURE OPERATIONS, AND ARCENT WILL CONTINUE COORDINATION WITH ALCON TO EFFECT REALIGNMENT OF AIR APPORTIONMENT PRIORITIES.

1991 February 14, Steven Arnold, ARCENT [Army Central Command] SITREP [Situation Report], quoted in Richard M. Swain, Lucky War: Third Army in Desert Storm, DIANE Publishing (1999), page 188

page 249: 3.C.1. DIRECT COORDINATION AUTHORIZED FOR ALCON./
page 365: 1.D. […] AS SUCH, ALCON SHOULD BE PROACTIVE IN PLANNING SUPPORT TO THE GREATEST EXTENT POSSIBLE. […] .//
page 377: 4.C. DIRLAUTH ALCON. KEEP THE DOMS AND THE JOINT STAFF INFORMED./

a. 2004, various sources, quoted in Center for Law and Military Operations, Domestic Operational Law (DOPLAW) Handbook for Judge Advocates, William S. Hein & Co., Inc. (publisher, 2004)

2. Conduct safety brief for ALCON. Discuss type of approach, safety precautions, and sound signals.

a. 2007, James Stavridis and Robert Girrier, Watch Officer's Guide, Fifteenth Edition, Naval Institute Press (2007), page 375

(military) Abbreviation of all concerned.


theeself

There was a will, friend, a true and lawful last will and testament of thee deceased uncle, in which theeself and thee cousin was made the sole heirs of the same.

1874, Benj. N. Martin, Choice Specimens of American Literature, And Literary Reader:

Does thou think anybody but theeself would jump overboard a night like this?

1880, Henry Woodcock, The Hero of the Humber:

The following table shows a list of English personal pronoun

including archaic and dialectal forms. Dialectal and obsolete

archaic forms are in italics. 1 See Appendix:English third-person singular pronouns for attested neopronoun.


thur

“Thur’s a lot of Indians down thur, Captain Scull,” one says.

2007 November 11, Virginia Heffernan, “High-Def at High Noon”, in New York Times:


thur

"I'd 'ave sooner had 'un of anybody else," said he, "but thur war nur anuther to be had, and it bean't such a bad 'un nither, only Measter Humphreys be hardish in the mouth."

1898, Richard Jefferies, The Toilers of the Field:

Any-rate, thur wur lots of talk, fur 'twas seed not only in the church, and churchyard, but up at the house."


s/o

significant other
significant other#English

(India, Singapore) Abbreviation of son of.


nuthin'

Oh, sweet nuthin' / She ain't got nothing at all

1970, “Oh, Sweet Nuthin'”, in Loaded, performed by Velvet Underground:


thay

"The chaps as catches the big fishes, sir," went on the keeper, getting confidential, "is thay cussed night-line poachers."

1861, Thomas Hughes, Tom Brown at Oxford:


thay

"Good girlth don't thay tho," said sweet little Charlie rather shocked.

1868, Sophie May, Dotty Dimple at Her Grandmother's:

Do you mean to thay I am no gentleman, thir?

1903, Burt L. Standish, Frank Merriwell's Bravery:

Pronunciation spelling of say, to indicate a speaker with a speech impediment such as a lisp.


ne1 know where u can find t250 ringing tonez???????????????

2001 May 26, Kevin J Rowley, “t250 ring tonez”, in alt.cellular.motorola (Usenet):

Or does ne1 know where I can buy these cheap?

2004 March 30, Richard F., “WTB: ne1 have a empty CD cases 4 sale?”, in van.forsale (Usenet):

Does Cobra make their trailers all with the same size tires (for 15/18M ships anyway)? if so does ne1 have the numbers handy?

2010 May 26, "Tuno", “Cobra trailer tire size?”, in rec.aviation.soaring (Usenet):

(Internet slang, text messaging) Abbreviation of anyone.


hitself

hitself (the third person singular, neuter, personal pronoun, the reflexive form of hit, masculine himself, feminine herself, plural themselves)

en-pron

hit (reflexive-of)
himself (masculine)
herself (feminine)
themselves (plural)


elsewhat

Inherited from Middle English elles what, from Old English elles hwæt; corresponding with else + what.

inh+

(obsolete) Something else; anything else.


mesen

From Middle English myselven, my-selven, my-selvene, my selfen, variants of Middle English myself, mi-selfe. More at myself.


thems

"Catches in my craw, it does — thems as’ll let others do theys work for ’em, then come in to take what the gettin’s got."

1982, Terry C. Johnston, Carry the Wind, page 446:

After all, there's just some things in life a guy can't hope to change, even with the powder o' positive thinkin' that comes from livin' long enough and knowin' that thems what's got it ain't about to give none of it to thems what's not, [...]

2004, Louis Daniel Bordsky, Nuts to you!, page 25:

“There’s thems that can and thems that can’t; thems that talk and thems that rant.”

2008, Pat Mattaini Mestern, Granite, page 87:

“Thems are not called boats, thems are canoes.”

2009, Robert B. Marchand, Caylen's Quest, page 25:

(Appalachia, colloquial) variant of those.


'is

A representation of the pronunciation of his by a speaker whose dialect lacks the voiceless glottal fricative or transition ([h]).

When the Hon. Viscount Benjie sees you tonight, dearie, ’is little wee willie winkie is going to get as ’ard as a bit of Brighton rock.

1990, Joan Collins, Love & Desire & Hate, New York, N.Y.: Linden Press/Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 75:

Yeah, the little weasel’s right. I am goin’ to run away wiv Burt in ’is van.” The woman strutted over to the rat catcher, and took his hand. “We share a deep love of each other.”

2012, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Ratburger, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN:


everthang

Pronunciation spelling of everything, representing Southern US English.


thyne

Concernyng famishemente, it is necessarie to see, that the enemie hinder thee not of thy victualles, but to provide where thou maieste have it, and to see that thesame whiche thou haste, bee not loste: and therefore it is requisite, that thou have alwaies in provision with the armie, sufficiente victuall for a monethe, and then removyng into some strong place, thou muste take order with thy nexte frendes, that daily thei maie provide for thee, and above al thinges bestowe the victual with diligence, givyng every daie to every manne, a reasonable measure, and observe after soche sorte this poincte, that it disorder thee not: bicause all other thyng in the warre, maie with tyme be overcome, this onely with tyme overcometh thee: nor there shall never any enemie of thyne, who maie overcome thee with famishemente, that will seeke to overcome thee with iron.

1560, Peter Whitehorne, Machiavelli, Volume I:

The I understanding the cause of his miserable estate, sayd unto him, In faith thou art worthy to sustaine the most extreame misery and calamity, which hast defiled and maculated thyne owne body, forsaken thy wife traitorously, and dishonoured thy children, parents, and friends, for the love of a vile harlot and old strumpet.

1566, William Adlington, The Golden Asse:

Queene of Beauty, Mother of Love and of all worlds delight, 16 Without whose soverayne grace and kindly dewty Nothing on earth seems fayre to fleshly sight, Doe thou vouchsafe with thy love-kindling light T'illuminate my dim and dulled eyne, 20 And beautifie this sacred hymne of thyne: That both to thee, to whom I meane it most, And eke to her whose faire immortall beame Hath darted fyre into my feeble ghost, That now it wasted is with woes extreame, 25 It may so please, that she at length will streame Some deaw of grace into my withered hart, After long sorrow and consuming smart.

1591, Edmund Spenser, The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser, Volume 5:


nuffin

Heny Hankovitch, con guítar, / did a short Zen pray, / on his tatami in a relaxed lotos / fixin his mind on nuffin, rose-blue breasts, / and gave his parnel one French kiss;

1964, John Berryman, chapter 31, in 77 Dream Songs, New York: Farrar, Straus and Company, page 35:


nuffink

“Mon Dieu, is that me?” breathed Inès. / “You bet it is, dearie,” chuckled Stella. “And I’ll tell you somefink for nuffink. When the Hon. Viscount Benjie sees you tonight, dearie, ’is little wee willie winkie is going to get as ’ard as a bit of Brighton rock. He’ll be N-S-I-T tonight, I betcha.” / “What does that mean?” / “Not Safe In Texas, dearie,” sniggered Stella.

“You’re wastin’ your time with dat nonsense. You and dat little beast will amount to nuffink. Ya ’ear me? Nuffink!”


such like

Such and such like were the reasonings of Sir Thomas---happy to escape the embarrassing evils of a rupture, the wonder, the reflections, the reproach that must attend it, happy to secure a marriage which would bring him such an addition of respectability and influence, and very happy to think any thing of his daughter’s disposition that was most favourable for the purpose.

1814 May 9, [Jane Austen], chapter III, in Mansfield Park: […], volume I, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 58:


shee

There, on the other side, I did behold A Woman sitting sorrowfullie wailing, Rending her yeolow locks, like wyrie golde 10 About her shoulders careleslie downe trailing, And streames of teares from her faire eyes forth railing*: In her right hand a broken rod she held, Which towards heaven shee seemd on high to weld, [* Railing, flowing.]

Afterward shee sent a Gentleman aboord of vs, who declared that her Maiestie had good liking of our doings, and thanked vs for it, and also willed our Captaine to come the next day to the Court to take his leaue of her.

1598, Richard Hakluyt, The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of The English Nation, Vol. XII., America, Part I.:

...but Eve
[...]
Stood to entertain her guest from Heav'n; no vaile
Shee needed, Vertue-proof, no thought infirme
Alter'd her cheek...

1667, John Milton, “(please specify the page number)”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:

I'le take thy noble Work (and like the trade Where for a heap of Salt pure Gold is layd) I'le lay thy Volume, that Huge Tome of wit, About in Ladies Closets, where they sit Enthron'd in their own wills; and if she bee A Laick sister, shee'l straight flie to thee: But if a holy Habit shee have on, Or be some Novice, shee'l scarce looks upon Thy Lines at first; but watch Her then a while, And you shall see Her steale a gentle smile Upon thy Title, put thee neerer yet, Breath on thy Lines a whisper, and then set Her voyce up to the measures; then begin To blesse the houre, and happy state shee's in.

1679, Beaumont and Fletcher, The Works of Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher in Ten Volumes:

Lavater reporteth a historie of a parish priest in Germanie, that disguised himselfe with a white sheete about him, and at midnight came into the chamber of a rich woman that was in bed, and fashioning himself like a spirit, hee thought to put her in such feare, that shee would procure a conjuror or exorcist to talke with him, or else speake to him herselfe.

1828, Various, The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Vol. 12,:


us selves

head

us selves (second personal plural pronoun, reflexive case of we)


him/herself

him/herself (third person, singular, plural themselves)

Johannes de Moor has argued convincingly that the Priestly writer assumed the first human being was androgynous, both male and female, like God him/herself.

2003, Hennie J. Marsman, Women in Ugarit and Israel: their social and religious position in the context of the ancient Near East, BRILL, page 227

third-person singular
third-person singular

Himself or herself; singular of themselves, used as a reflexive and gender-neutral reference to the third-person singular.


anie

If anie do dislike the superstitious & needles cærimonies in ordination & yet also acknowledg that the Byshops may call, authorise, trie, confirme, & warrant by testimonie the sufficiencie of ministers / what greuous synne is it.

1588?, Robert Browne, “A Reproofe of Certeine Schismatical Persons & Their Doctrine Touching the Hearing & Preaching of the Word of God” in Cartwrightiana, ed. Albert Peel and Leland Henry Carlson (1951, published for the Sir Halley Stewart Trust by Allen and Unwin), page 228

(Early Modern) Obsolete spelling of any.


youze

'Ach Eddie,' he tilted his head to one side, 'are youze gonna start throwin' yer toys outta yer pram now?'

2008, Cathi Unsworth, The Singer, page 108:


damn all

"The rice ration's down to nearly damn-all in the kampongs, but we keep finding dumps of grub in the forest."

1958, Anthony Burgess, The Enemy in the Blanket (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 298:

And that's just to let you see we don't spend all our time sitting round on our arses doing damn all.

1976, L. P. Davies, Possession, The Crime Club, →ISBN, page 112:

Humphrey Appleby: Well, isn't that rather serious? I mean Buranda's a friendly African country with a Commonwealth connection.
Frederick Stewart: Our information is it's likely to be turned into a hostile LDC with a Cuban connection.
Humphrey Appleby: What will the Government do about it?
Frederick Stewart: The same as they always do:
Both: damn all! (laugh track)

1980 March 3, Antony Jay, Jonathan Lynn, “The Official Visit”, in Yes, Minister, season 1, episode 2, spoken by Humphrey Appleby and Frederick Stewart (Nigel Hawthorne and John Savident):

(informal, vulgar) Nothing (not any thing: no thing).


thissun

(colloquial) Contraction of this 'un (“this one”).


toder

1472, The Coventry Leet Book: Or Mayor's Register, sxn 57, "Joh. Thrumpton Mayor"
[…] the wheche old men all & euerych of hem by hym self deposed & swar openly vppon a boke in the presence of the forseid worshipfull men, all the grownde betwen Whitley broke & Barons ffeld of Couentre, that lyeth betwen the kynges hye waye ledyng from Whitley to Couentre on the one syde, and the kynges Parke on the toder syde, to be Comen to the Comeners of this Citee of Couentree;


ownself

You may be ashamed of your ownself, to disturb People at this Time of Night.

1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC:

“Tea Cake ain't been no boy for some time. He's round thirty his ownself.”

1937, Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Harper, published 2013, page 3:

Did you paint this your ownself?

(now chiefly regional, especially Southern US, Caribbean, Singlish) (One's) self; used with a preceding possessive adjective to form a pronominal phrase.


whoes

out of whoes eies there gushed streames of teares

a. 1547?, Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, The Aeneid book 2


thers

They've raised some fine buildings 'at's worth lookin at,-- They're a credit to th' city, thers noa daat o' that; But ther's nowt strikes a stranger soa mich as a seet O'th' craad 'at's i' Briggate at Setterdy neet.

Well, Miss Susan, thers plenty for you to eat and drink.

1905, George Bernard Shaw, The Irrational Knot:


he or she

he or she (third person, singular, plural they)

they (plural)
she or he (alternative)
heorshe (alternative)
he/she (alternative)
she/he (alternative)
s/he (alternative)
(s)he (alternative)

In Skinner the Court stated: It is not disputed, however, that chemical analysis of urine, like that of blood, can reveal a host of private medical facts about an employee, including whether he or she is epileptic, pregnant, or diabetic.

2003, Doyice Cotten, John T. Wolohan, Law for recreation and sport managers, page 466:

(sometimes proscribed) He or she; used as a gender-neutral reference to the third person singular.


zirself

zirself (the third person singular, gender-neutral, personal pronoun)

(emphatic, nonstandard) 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.


thi sen

(Yorkshire) Alternative form of thee sen.


perself

per (from person) + -self (like himself, herself, etc.)

Per injured perself.

I can't comment on the original poster's motivations, but I do know that some agencies (mine, for instance) will not release any information until the adoptee is 18, and then the adoptee perself has to request the information.

1996 February 22, Susan Groppi, “These messages make me so sad...”, in alt.adoption (Usenet):

My hit on the comment was that she was saying that a person on a newsgroup could choose *not* to publicly identify as a member of a visually identifiable minority which is subject to oppression, and therefore spend some time not having to have such oppression directed at perself as an individual (although obviously such a person would still be subject to "ist" postings which aim at the oppressed group in general).

1996 December 6, Suki L. McDonough, “What's Up?”, in soc.women.lesbian-and-bi (Usenet):

The person who called perself a dom, but then breached a safeword or did something similarly non-consensual.

1997 April 22, Anthony and Joy Hilbert, “ASB: Info PDQ please re local group rules”, in alt.sex.bondage (Usenet):

(reflexive, rare, nonstandard) Per, themself; gender-neutral object of a verb or preposition that also appears as the subject, the reflexive form of per.


eirs

From eir + 's, or by removing th from theirs.

(rare, nonstandard) That which belongs to em, possessive case of gender-neutral ey or e, equivalent to the singular theirs and coordinate with his and hers.


emself

emself (a reflexive, third person gender-neutral singular personal pronoun)

en-pron

From em + -self, or by removing "th" from themself (cf. also 'emself, 'emselves).

Eir sentences would sound smoother since ey wouldn't clutter them with the old sexist pronouns. And if ey should trip up in the new usage, ey would only have emself to blame.

1975 August 23, Judie Black, “Ey has a word for it”, in Chicago Tribune, section 1, page 12:

In this particular instance, a wizard eventually took it upon emself to @toad Mr_Bungle...

2003, Elizabeth Hess, Yib's Guide to MOOing: Getting the Most from Virtual Communities on the Internet, Trafford Publishing, →ISBN, →OL, page 233:

The adult worries much less; is cautious, sensible and knows how to protect emself and eir system from attack and error.

2004 March 31, Sue Thomas, Hello World : travels in virtuality, Raw Nerve Books, →ISBN, →OL, page 78:

As he^([sic]) struggled to yank Sarah back to eir room, Edward promised emself that ey'd do whatever ey could to save what was left of eir sibling's sanity- and protect em from their monster of a mother.

2007, Morgan O'Friel, Larkenia's Flaws: Volume 1, Grand Rapids: TheSpindle, →ISBN, page 136:

(rare, reflexive, nonstandard) Em, a gender-neutral object of a verb or preposition that also appears as the subject, the reflexive form of em, equivalent to themself (also used for emphasis).


eirself

From eir + -self, in pattern of hisself and herself (construed as formed from adjectival her), or by dropping th from theirself.

In practical terms, the sensei needs to teach some stretching in order to protect eir students from injury and eirself from liability.

1999 July 23, Allover Stripes, “looking for a style”, in rec.martial-arts.moderated (Usenet):

Finished with spiritual cleaning, Eir hunger satisfied, Sereah took a quick sonic shower and prepared Eirself for the formal dinner. E wasn't yet used to Eir red command uniform.

1999 November 30, excalibor, “USS TITANIA: Preparations for dinner...”, in alt.starfleet.rpg (Usenet):

(reflexive, rare, nonstandard) A gender-neutral object of a verb or preposition that also appears as the subject, equivalent to themself and coordinate with himself or herself.


coself

Co consistently does less than cos share of the Community work. 4. Co absents coself from the Community for more than three weeks [...]

At the very least, an individual might have to use different terms to describe coself in a heterosexual context than co uses in a sexual minority context [...]

1996, Brett Beemyn, Mickey Elianon, Queer studies: a lesbian, gay, bisexual, & transgender anthology, page 74:

A youngster of my own introduction had been rejected by an object of preadolescent craving and had killed coself by leaping at the ceiling of co's quarters.

2004 April 1, Pieira dos Lobos, “Fern's Story two”, in alt.magick.serious (Usenet):

(reflexive, nonstandard) Gender-neutral object of a verb or preposition that also appears as the subject, grammatically equivalent to himself or herself.


heorshe

head

heorshe (third person, singular, plural they)

I heard ghastly rumors about some faculty actually destroying a student's video because heorshe didn't feel it was art. . . even if a rumor it sounds like a pretty terrible environment for expression.

1994 May 4, Mary Flanagan, “Savannah College of Art and Design”, in alt.artcom (Usenet):

Why doesn’t Argonut come out of the closet (where heorshe is having an affair with hisorher Filter Queen) and identify himorherself? It would be more fun to persecute himorher if we actually knew who heorshe is. ;-)

1996 September 16, Jon LeBlanc, “Argonut's special game report. (Argos/Sask)”, in rec.sport.football.canadian (Usenet):

Perhaps heorshe started out by investigating the scientific validity of all those house remedies and more esoteric healing methods which fall into the stereotypical Verbena paradigm.

1998 May 20, CML, “Mages playing out of Paradigm”, in rec.games.frp.storyteller (Usenet):

(nonstandard, uncommon, Internet) Alternative form of he or she: they (singular); used as a gender-neutral reference to the third person singular.


thonself

Each of the members is expected to inform ‘thonself’ on the topic thus allotted, and to be prepared to give an opinion or ask questions.

1885 June, “Local Circles”, in The Chataquan, volume 5, number 9, page 544:

Every student should acquaint thonself with some method by which thon can positively correlate the facts of thons knowledge.

1895, Henry Graham Williams, Outlines of Psychology, 3rd edition, Syracuse: C. W. Bardee, →OL, LCC BF141.W72, page 5:

Thus neither man nor maid mates for thonself, but both love and move in the tribal interests and along the lines laid down by the tribal leaders.

1898, W. J. McGee, “The Seri Indians”, in J. W. Powell, editor, Seventeenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution 1895-1896, Washington, page 283:

Maybe I don't speak for the average American, but I very much doubt that thon wants that word in thons language or that thon would use it thonself.

1985, William Knowlton Zinsser, On Writing Well: An Informal Guide to Writing Nonfiction, 3rd edition, New York: Harper & Row, →ISBN, →LCCN, LCC PE1429.Z5 1985, page 121:

(archaic, nonstandard) themself; gender-neutral object of a verb or preposition that also appears as the subject, coordinate with himself or herself, the reflexive form of thon.


whort

1898, Barry Pain, "The Curick"
When yer 'asn't gort no work yer doesn't git no pye,
And when the cash ain't 'andy, then be keerful whort yer sye,


usself

usself (first-person plural pronoun, reflexive case of we)

From Middle English. Equivalent to us + -self.


o.s.

(in bibliographies) Initialism of old series.


myselves

So many pistols I have borrowed to protect myselves from creatures who too readily recognize my weapons and have murder in their heart!

I can't communicate with myselves. I lost millions in the last couple of weeks, playing the market the regular way.

1972, Robert Silverberg, {Now + n, Now - n}:

(reflexive pronoun, nonstandard) Me; used to indicate the speaker as an entity with more than one self.


whatshername

Look, there's old whatshername peering over the fence again.

‘What document? Why, the document,’ replied Squeers. ‘The Madeline What’s-her-name one. It was a will; that’s what it was.’

1839, Charles Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby:

(informal) A female person whose name cannot be recalled.


somedeal

From Middle English somdel, sumdel (“somewhat, to an extent, in some measure; part, portion, a bit, small amount; in ~ this instance, this case”), equivalent to some + deal.

somdel (alternative)
somedele (alternative)
sumdeal (alternative)
sumdel (alternative)
sumdele (alternative)

In Ethiopia all the rivers and all the waters be trouble, and they be somedeal salt for the great heat that is there.

1964, John Mandeville (original), Travels of John Mandeville (edited version)

Curfew Street, and though we know he was somedeal hurt in that matter, we cannot see why he should not do homage in leal and duteous sort.

1828, The Fair Maid of Perth, Large Print edition, Echo Library, published 2006, →ISBN, page 270:

but it's a godsend at times for a lone woman when she's ugly enough to turn cream sour, and somedeal crooked o' the body into the bargain.

1917, George W. Gough, “Chapter V, the Ancient hHgh House”, in Julian Hawthorne, editor, The Yeoman Adventurer, Reprint edition, Echo Library, published 2005, →ISBN, page 27:

(obsolete or dialect) In some measure or degree; somewhat, partly, partially


you lot

You lot had better knock it off.

I’m not s’posed ter talk abou’ it, not even ter you lot.

2000 July 8, J. K. Rowling [pseudonym; Joanne Rowling], “The Beginning”, in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Harry Potter; 4), London: Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 624:

(idiomatic, colloquial, chiefly Commonwealth, may have disparaging nuance) You (plural).


your guys's

tlb

(chiefly Canada, US, Australia, New Zealand, colloquial, chiefly proscribed)

2000, Linkin Park Web Interview http://www.pushmeaway.com/linkinwebint.html
I know that in your guys's official bio from Warner that it says you would tour with anyone because your music touches so many genres.

“I don’t believe that a seven-year term of office for our president should be of any particular concern to you, Mr. Kelly.”
“Well, it is, but that is your guys’s problem.[”]

2005, Megan, Age 14, in Weight Loss Success Stories http://www.blubberbuster.com/board/success_37.html
I still have about 30 lbs to lose, which I would love to lose in 3 months..and after reading all your guys's stories I have gained even more motivation.

2006, Tony Kapel, A Letter to the Parents of http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN1411685172&id=_ThYMEfjATgC&pg=PA263&lpg=PA263&vq=your+guys%27s&dq=%22your+guys%27s%22&sig=IJ9Q8OivUhTnAasdJNFyGTc9Www
“Man your guys’s room is bigger then mine — man you got a balcony — I don’t have a balcony.”


faer

Ewan emphasized that thinking about how faer ancestors would have lived gave faer a sense of appreciation for the ease and comfort of modern life.

2019, Barbara Jane Davy, "Wyrd Ecology", thesis submitted to the University of Waterloo, page 134

Fae had decked faerself in a modest amount of cheap jewelry, faer makeup inexpertly applied.

2022, Novae Caelum, The Truthspoken Heir: The Stars and Green Magics - Season One, unnumbered page:

Soul describes and shares part of the "I AM" poem which fae wrote for faer college application.

2022, Sherry Paris, You Can Make a Difference!: A Creative Workbook and Journal for Young Activists, page 24:


e/o

And well I think we'd get married if we could see e/o more often but I'm only up there once every 6 mos or so, but If you guys would work me maybe I'd see her again and In that case I'd be willing to name our kids after you!

1998 December 18, JustStu, “Charlie Goodnights vs Funnybone Columbus”, in alt.comedy.standup (Usenet):

Lemme give you one of my own examples, happened just recently.....there's this girl right, I was in love with her big time 6 years back, didn't work out, got into a fight, haven't seen e/o after that until last year, had a great time ever since, until very recently, I forgot a^([sic]) appiontment.^([sic])

1999 May 26, Jan Bakker, “Your opinion wanted! Are love and infatuation two seperate^([sic]) things??”, in alt.love (Usenet):

example2: I gave her twin a dinner-check for her and her BF, why? coz I felt like they hadn't spend any quality-time together in a long time (she also often tells me that she and him don't see e/o often)...so that was my way of saying: I like you and you deserve happiness.

1999 June 2, Michael Forest, “How do i make women feel respected??”, in alt.love (Usenet):

Weren't they whores together? I just naturally assumed Carmen was turning tricks before going legit, but getting framed by her BF. But those who said they knew e/o from time in prison is also possible.

2008 August 13, Taylor, “AMC: How is Carmen connected to Rand(i)(y)(ee)?”, in rec.arts.tv.soaps.abc (Usenet):

I used to work at a hospital and both me and a coworker slept with a couple coworkers and residents/ med students on rotation. We blew each other's minds when we told e/o (After getting to know each other), we were counselors/orderlies (patient care on a psych ward) and trusted e/o to keep our secrets.

2019 May 21, u/UrethraFrankIin, “Redditors who post nudes of themselves on the internet, do you ever worry about being caught? If this has happened to you, what was the aftermath?”, in Reddit, r/AskReddit, archived from the original on 2023-09-21:

Shaking hands like they don't see e/o almost everyday

2023 July 10, @miwon17_, Twitter, archived from the original on 2023-09-21:

nowadays slapping e/o is equality, back then respecting and loving e/o was equality.

2023 September 18, @notalwaysalyssa, Twitter, archived from the original on 2023-09-21:

(text messaging) Abbreviation of each other.


zir

For quotations using this term, see Citations:zir.

A large clay jug for storing water, common in Egypt and the Sudan since ancient times.


thei

But potent is he against whome thei faught; for when thay wicked war in greatast securitie, then begane God to schaw his anger.

1566, John Knox, The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6):


anything else

Would you like anything else?

"I don't want to spoil any comparison you are going to make," said Jim, "but I was at Winchester and New College." / "That will do," said Mackenzie. "I was dragged up at the workhouse school till I was twelve. Then I ran away and sold papers in the streets, and anything else that I could pick up a few coppers by—except steal.["]

1909, Archibald Marshall [pseudonym; Arthur Hammond Marshall], “In the Bay of Biscay”, in The Squire’s Daughter, New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead and Company, published 1919, →OCLC, page 16:

Any other thing. (This entry is a translation hub.)


me, myself and I

I like things the way they are: just me, myself, and I. No complicated organs and systems and such. Give me the simple life.

Here I was all alone, no one to help me get over my mom's and sister's death, just me myself and I. It was as if I died and all I could see was black.

2011, Isaiah Jamal Borgum, Obstacles, Lessions, & Hope:


everyone and their mother

2011, “Now Everyone And Their Mother Is Shorting China, Especially These Four Stocks”, in Business Insider:

DS Andy Wainwright: You do know there are more guns in the country than there are in the city.
DS Andy Cartwright: Everyone and their mums is packin' round here!


everybody and their dog

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Naomi Persephone Amethyst (NaomiAmethyst)-everybody and their dog.wav

Everybody and their dog in that town had the "fever and ague," and they walked about like ghosts.

1894 February, “Reminiscences”, in The Station Agent:


whethersoever

From Middle English queþer-so-ever, weder-so-ever, wheder so ever, wheder-so-ever. By surface analysis, whether + so + ever.

surf

(rare, obsolete) In all places; everywhere.


somebuddy

(eye dialect) Eye dialect spelling of somebody.


d@

d@ is 4 u — that is for you

(text messaging) Abbreviation of dat (colloquial form of that).


thissen

(colloquial, Yorkshire) Alternative form of thee sen.


'emselves

From earlier hemselves (compare 'em), from Middle English hemself, from Old English him selfum, equivalent to 'em + -selves.

(colloquial) Themselves (in unstressed position following a consonant).


Your Holiness

An honorific or title used to refer to a high-ranking religious leader, such as the Pope.


you gals

Hey you gals! How you doin'?

You gals headin' down to the beach?

(idiomatic, colloquial, chiefly Canada, US, Australia, New Zealand) You (plural).


quho

(often Scotland) Obsolete spelling of who.


her's

From Middle English hires, equivalent to her + -'s (possessive marker).

But who could resist the seductions of a grace like her’s?

1807, [Germaine] de Staël Holstein, translated by D[ennis] Lawler, “[Book VI. The manners and character of the Italians.] Chap[ter] I.”, in Corinna; or, Italy. […], volume II, London: […] Corri, […]; and sold by Colburn, […], and Mackenzie, […], →OCLC, page 34:

[…] as Mrs. Collins had settled it with her husband that the office of introduction should be her’s, it was performed in a proper manner, without any of those apologies and thanks which he would have thought necessary.

1813 January 27, [Jane Austen], chapter VI, in Pride and Prejudice: […], volume II, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 64:


smth

And exactly a month to the date after kissing the world with her sixth studio album, Short n' Sweet (it's like she planned it or smth...), she's [Sabrina Carpenter] kicking off her Short n' Sweet Tour in Columbus, Ohio on September 23.

2024 September 21, Heath Owens, “What to Wear to Sabrina Carpenter's 'Short N' Sweet' Tour”, in Cosmopolitan:


quhat

certaine quhat he wos

(especially Scotland) Obsolete spelling of what.


quhich

(often Scotland) Obsolete spelling of which.


hse

(Hong Kong, Singapore) Abbreviation of house.


theyselves

Here are people cherishing Aunt Sally Simpson's smile and watermelon days sans rolling eyes and white folks acting up, just black folks of theyselves, by theyselves, and for theyselves, understandin' Bert bustin' rock out on the county road and the chain gang cake-walkin' across the stage, intercha[i]ngable.

2015, Steven C. Tracy, Hot Music, Ragmentation, and the Bluing of American Literature, page 241:

(nonstandard, dialect or African-American Vernacular) themselves


(Internet slang, text messaging) someone


me fein

This is a photo of Jimmy, Tim, me fein, and Steve.


other some

some have sleeves, other some have none; some have hoods to pull up over the head, some have none

1842, Joseph Strutt, A Complete View of the Dress and Habits of the People of England:

Other some said, that a man which was married and had children was unmeet for such a charge.

1563 March 30 (Gregorian calendar), John Foxe, Actes and Monuments of These Latter and Perillous Dayes, […], London: […] Iohn Day, […], →OCLC:

Other some were found to staie in the riuer, couring downe his bodie vnder the root of some willow tree

1577, Raphaell Holinshed, The Firste Volume of the Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Irelande […], volume I, London: […] [Henry Bynneman] for Iohn Harrison, →OCLC:

(UK, dialect, obsolete) Some other people or things.


somthing

Is not this ſomthing more then phantaſie?

c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:


summut

"Lawk, what sinifies what the play was," said Miss Grimshaw, "'tweren't that; I was going to mention summut by way of proof poz; and there —" [some narrative omitted]

1808, Orton Smith, Sketches of Character, or Specimens of Real Life, II.130:

(British, dialectal, obsolete) Alternative form of summat.


summot

Is it not ſent to make a Mon to ſwear
Summot abaoot the King, and his reet Heir?

1773, John Byrom, Miscellaneous Poems, page 164:

And yet it may mean summot

1849, William Harrison Ainsworth, The Lancashire Witches, I.117:


zummat

Thee musn’t lumber the room, if thee’l not drink zummat.

1826, “First Love”, in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, volume 20, number 115, page 158:


zummet

A thawt, an if a war alive,

1825, James Jennings, Observations on Some of the Dialects in the West of England, Particularly Somersetshire, page 119


zummut

[…] besides, he az been always doing zummut for her ever zince her feather died—zo he as.

1813, Patience and Perserverance; or, the Modern Griselda, volume 1, page 60:


zumat

If I could a lugged back the oss, that mought a bin wuth zumat.

1839, Benson Earle Hill, Home Service; or, Scenes and Characters from Life, I.282:


she/he

head

she/he (third person singular, plural they)

She or he; singular of they, used as a gender-neutral (binary) reference to the third person singular.


she or he

she or he (third person, singular, plural they)


theyself

Just because they is gay, that don't mean they don't suppose to stand up for they self.

1986 April 12, John Royal, “Difference Between Asking & Ripping Off”, in Gay Community News, page 3:


sumthing

"Fool, you crazy or sumthing?"

2005, Dana Jamar Mask, Enter … Brotherhood (fiction), →ISBN, page 178:

just to clarify sumthing, i am not overwhelmingly good at math as u guys seem to be, so it may take me more time than u guys to understand sumthing …

2009, Gerry Stahl, Studying Virtual Math Teams, →ISBN, page 144:

… and sum-how that makes you feel good about yourself—as if you've accomplished sum-thing—as if you're worth sum-thing and not nothing.

2014, Darth Figpucker, evi1 - a novel about you (fiction):

… so that they can see if there might be sumthing wrong before they try to go thru the gate.

2015, LT Wolf, The World King (fiction), →ISBN:


your man

... from the work of John Gilroy, whose animal cartoons and painful puns are still used to this day, to modern masterpieces such as the surfing ad (which led the Irish singer-songwriter Christy Moore to ponder "how yer man stayed up on that surfboard after fourteen pints of stout").

2002, Geoff Wallis, Mark Connolly, Margaret Greenwood, The Rough Guide to Dublin, page 122:

No, your man there with the kind of hooded eyes, talking to Tom O'Reilly. That's Frank Purcell, the general secretary.

2004, May O'Brien, Clouds on My Windows: A Dublin Memoir, page 151:

Your man is talking away but it's not dramatically correct to have him just jawing on and on, when there's no movement.

2005, John Doyle, A Great Feast of Light: Growing Up Irish in the Television Age, page 81:

"What did yer man want?" "Dunno, couldn't understand him."

2008, Andrew Higgins Wyndham, Re-imagining Ireland, page 29:

(Ireland) That man, the man in question.


her nibs

Alternative form of his nibs, when referring to a female.


oonuh

Both of oonuh was so young

2016, Nicole Dennis-Benn, chapter 8, in Here Comes the Sun:

(Caribbean, dialectal) You (plural); y'all, you guys, you all.


your'n

Perhaps due to reanalysis of yourn as a shortening of your one or your own.

Tom, I wouldn’t ever got into all this trouble if it hadn’t ‘a’ been for that money; now you just take my sheer of it along with your’n, and gimme a ten-center sometimes—not many times, becuz I don’t give a dern for a thing ’thout it’s tollable hard to git—and you go and beg off for me with the widder.

1876, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter XXXV, in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Hartford, Conn.: The American Publishing Company, →OCLC, pages 271–272:


our'n

Perhaps due to reanalysis of ourn as a shortening of our one or our own.


his'n

Perhaps due to reanalysis of hisn as a shortening of his one or his own.


her'n

Perhaps due to reanalysis of hern as a shortening of her one or her own.


their'n

Perhaps due to reanalysis of theirn as a shortening of their one or their own.


youself

“Wat for, Massa Lynnford, you send dis nigga 'way and mos' quite git killed youself? Vy you do dis, Massa Lynnford? Dis nigga hab de right to git killed fust, Massa Lynnford! fust afore youself, Massa Lynnford! You know dat! Vy you send him 'way?” exclaimed Toby, who had got some jumbled-up account of what had happened.

1858, John Richter Jones, The Quaker Soldier: Or, The British in Philadelphia, Philadelphia: T. B. Peterson, chapter 38, 528:

“Settle youself der, boy. Why, I won' be keepin' you from doin' what yore pa done said. Asides, it ain't gonna take too lon to has us a little drink. Look at de rain, boy; it be comin' down right fierce.”

2012, James E. Ferrell, Cross-Pull, CrossBooks (softcover) (harcover), chapter 23, 347


yorself

“Welcum to McCaufreys, Billy Dean” he says. “Make yorself at home & hav a pie.”

2011, David Almond, The True Tale of the Monster Billy Dean, Candlewick Press, published 2014, →ISBN, page 121:


(leetspeak, text messaging) Abbreviation of someone.


Yourself

Honorific alternative letter-case form of yourself, sometimes used when referring to God or another important figure who is understood from context.


You

Honorific alternative letter-case form of you, sometimes used when referring to God or another important figure who is understood from context.


Your

Honorific alternative letter-case form of your, sometimes used when referring to God or another important figure who is understood from context.


Yours

Honorific alternative letter-case form of yours, sometimes used when referring to God or another important figure who is understood from context.


Thou

Honorific alternative letter-case form of thou, sometimes used when referring to God or another important figure who is understood from context.


Thee

Honorific alternative letter-case form of thee, sometimes used when referring to God or another important figure who is understood from context.


Thine

Honorific alternative letter-case form of thine, sometimes used when referring to God or another important figure who is understood from context.


Thyself

Honorific alternative letter-case form of thyself, sometimes used when referring to God or another important figure who is understood from context.


Myself

Alternative letter-case form of myself used when speaking as God or another important figure who is understood from context.


whomso

whomso (the singular and plural objective case of whoso)

en-pron

From Middle English hwam se, hwamse, hwam swo, quam so, quham-so, wam-so, whame so, whamm se, whammse, wham so, wham-swa, whom so, whomso, wom so, from Old English hwām swā; equivalent to whom + so.


everwho

From ever + who. Formed similarly to the older words each, every. Compare everwhere.

Everwho did this is in mighty big trouble!

And I stayed close to Velmer and Troy or everwho was walking with me. I always thought cars was exciting.

2014, Robert Morgan, The Road from Gap Creek, page 191:


yours trulies

Humorously non-standard pluralization of yours truly.

(idiomatic, informal) we, us, or ourselves


thoo

(Orkney) Thou; singular informal form of you.


yo'self

(dialect) Pronunciation spelling of yourself.


yo'selves

head

yo'selves (second person, the plural of yo'self, the reflexive case of yo')

(dialect) Yo' (plural), used as the object of a verb or preposition, referring to the people being spoken to, previously mentioned.


yoselves

yoselves (second person, the plural of yoself, the reflexive case of yo)

(dialect) Yo (plural), used as the object of a verb or preposition, referring to the people being spoken to, previously mentioned.


ever'body

(dialect) Pronunciation spelling of everybody.


every body

Afraid of every body, ashamed of herself, and longing for the home she had left, she knew not how to look up, and could scarcely speak to be heard, or without crying.

1814 May 9, [Jane Austen], chapter II, in Mansfield Park: […], volume I, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 22:


e'rything

Pronunciation spelling of everything, representing African-American Vernacular English.

pronunciation spelling of

(colloquial, nonstandard) Alternative spelling of everything.


everbody

(archaic) Obsolete spelling of everybody.


sumbody

(African-American Vernacular) Eye dialect spelling of somebody.


sombuddy

(eye dialect) Eye dialect spelling of somebody.


somebudy

(dialectal) Eye dialect spelling of somebody.


som'

(African-American Vernacular) Eye dialect spelling of some.


anybudy

(dialectal) Eye dialect spelling of anybody.


yur

Zom yurs ago, I need’n stop ta tull thur when,…A hunderd yurs ‘ad pass’d, twiz zaid;

1858, Nathan Hogg, Poetical letters tu es brither Jan and a witch story tha old humman way tha urd cloke, ur tha evil eye in the Devonshire dialect, page 53:

‘Lor’ bless ye, there wun’t be thoughts o’ marryin’ in her ‘ed for yurs yet. And when she do marry she’ll marry a properer Mann than ‘im .

In them thar yurs of vanity I useter think the hull worl’ didn’ hol’ ez takin’ a gal ez Arizony Farner. …’Nd now Moses Adkins hev married ‘er yurs ‘nd yurs ago.

1893, Isabel Smithson, “The Guardian Pine-tree”, in Romance, page 500:

Yep! Right hyere in this vury house, when me and the wife lived hyere yurs ago, and Teedy went to git a knife fer something or nother, and sent her off into everlastin babblin.

1978, “Appalachian Heritage, Volumes 6-8”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), page 54:

Ah remembur this wan time, few yurs back now (Christ the time just runnun awey like it does), when me mate wuz up at the college in Belfast an ah went te stop up thur wuth um ferra weekend - lots n lots uv drink an drugs…

‘Tis a turr’ble state d’be in, Oi c’n tell ee, When th’things you done a vew yurs back don’t work, They gurt-big zacks o’ taydees ver me back be var doo weighdy…

2006, Beau Parke, A Darzit Voice: Poems and stories from a Dorset man, page 85:

They spoke in soft Southern drawls: We ded this part about this tahm nine yurs ago,” said the one with the neatly trimmed white moustache. “But ah don’t remember thur bein’ so much uphiyull.”

2007, Tom Slayton, Searching for Thoreau:

She ain’t want da state to split us up so she dropped er last yur’a high school to take cur’a us.

And when yer mind wanders back tah dat possibility, o’er da long yurs and barters ya been doin’, yee either lose dat hope all o’er again and it becomes nuttin more dan a passin thought, er yee find yerself thinkin’ of home, of havin’ dat hope.

2017, Matthew Moffitt, The Sands of Deliverance: From the moon to Joshua (Book One):


somesing

You want ketchup or somesing?


ev'ything

(colloquial) Alternative spelling of everything.


e'rythang

(African-American Vernacular, colloquial) Alternative spelling of everything.


e'ryting

Pronunciation spelling of everything, representing Caribbean English.


evrythin

(archaic) Alternative spelling of everything.


everytang

(colloquial) Pronunciation spelling of everything, representing Southern US English.


whatevuh

(nonstandard) Alternative spelling of whatever.


overmany

From Middle English over-many, overmany, ovyrmany; equivalent to over- + many. Compare overmuch.

Have we not God hys wrath, for Goddes wrath, and a thousand of the same stampe, wherein the corrupte orthography in the most hath been the sole or principal cause of corrupte prosodye in overmany?

1580, Gabriel Harvey, (Please provide the book title or journal name):

“Now, nominations for the council – but not over-many,” the Chancellor moved.


overmany

Three or four men noticed my condition; and, evidently setting it down to the results of over many pegs, charitably endeavoured to draw me apart from the rest of the loungers.

1888, Rudyard Kipling, “The Phantom Rickshaw”, in The Phantom 'Rickshaw and Other Tales, Allahabad: A.H. Wheeler and Co., page 15:


anypony

From any + pony, by analogy with anybody.

As I said, I'm writing a fanfic. I need to know if anypony in particular ~doesn't~ want to be in it.

1998 October 1, Jennifer McMichael, “I'm writing a fanfic....”, in alt.toys.my-little-pony (Usenet):

As stated before, if anypony would like one, the cost is $15 plus shipping.

1999 August 17, luv...@geocities.com [username], “My MLP T-shirt”, in alt.toys.my-little-pony (Usenet):

Heyas, I finally got around to drawing a pic of my unicorn self, if anypony wants to see it and let me know if it could use some changes before I get to the coloring of it.

1999 October 29, Pouncer [username], “Pouncer Drawing, not colored yet”, in alt.toys.my-little-pony (Usenet):


everypony

From every + pony, by analogy with everybody.

Hi everypony! I'm back from Germany and my luck held out! You'd never believe what I found!

1998 July 13, Buckbuddy [username], “Back from Germany”, in alt.toys.my-little-pony (Usenet):

why don't a^([sic]) draw a picture of everypony on the newsgroup, in their pony selves!

1998 September 6, Glory, “say cheese!”, in alt.toys.my-little-pony (Usenet):

Thanks so very much EVERYPONY! I really appreciate this! I was so stumped!!

1999 September 14, Michelle, “Re: Wanna help name a custom?”, in alt.toys.my-little-pony (Usenet):

(My Little Pony fandom slang) Everybody.


yourselfs

head

yourselfs (second person, the plural of yourself, the reflexive case of you)

At this very moment you're probably asking yourselfs: whatever happened to the other gay individual mentioned in the story above?

1985 December 14, Faron Stone, “Naked Beyond Embarrassment”, in Gay Community News, volume 13, number 22, page 4:


limpeh

Borrowed from Hokkien 恁爸／林北 (lín-pē, “I; me”, literally “your father”), specifically Singapore Hokkien 恁爸 (lím-pē, “I; me”, literally “your father”).

bor

lim peh (alternative)
limpei (alternative)

Limpeh run faster than you, hor.

Limpeh always see those AH BENGS drive the CiBIC SiR (Ah-re) around with their big spoiler and so many uglweee stickers.

1999 October 29, Ken Tan, sg.marketplace:

Lim peh tell you something – dis year mindef kaciau lim peh, disrupt lim peh eh work flow, now still owing lim peh some marney due to some technicality.

1999 November 23, Sophus Lefouque, sg.marketplace:

Yes, you are very right, you are very sharp! Limpeh like your idea!

2002, Jack Neo, I Not Stupid, spoken by Mr Khoo (Richard Low), Singapore: Mediacorp Raintree Pictures:

Lim peh ask you last time study hard become scorer, win scorer ship go Harvoc University, you nebber lisen.

2011 January 11, Singrish King, soc.culture.singapore (Usenet):

Limpeh is honoured that my blog has been recently featured by the king of all Singaporean bloggers – Mr Brown.

2011 November 7, LIFT: Limpeh Is Foreign Talent:

Welcome to economics 101 with Limpeh. Allow me to break down the concept of round-tripping to you in the most simple way in my kitchen.

2013, williamlaukl@gmail.com, "https://groups.google.com/forum/#!search/%22limpeh%22/ot-email-group/nIK7LscVJM8/MmcxrQBJ2IUJ", ot email group, 18 September 2013

Come over to limpeh, come over to limpeh. Do you understand what limpeh is saying? If yes say yes, if no say no. Don’t tell limpeh "yes no yes no".

2013, ShiGGa Shay, “Limpeh (ft. Tosh Rock)”, in LimPeh (feat. Tosh Rock) - Single:

(Singapore, Singlish, informal, condescending, impolite) A reference to oneself in the third person, taking on the stance of a superior.


everycunt

From every + cunt, after Scots everycunt.

I mean everycunt's carrying blades these days.

1994, Duncan McLean, Bucket of Tongues, Vintage, →ISBN:

Too big for everycunt else's boots - that's a good one.

But when they knew they were going back they lost his paperwork. No just his. Everycunt who'd tried to leave.

2010, Gregory Burke, Black Watch, Faber & Faber, →ISBN:


wt

Wᵗ condicion that at the tyme of the Lavatory eueryche of theym turne theym to the people, and exorte theym to pray for ye soules following...

1513, Robert Fabyan, last will and testament

They hewe downe a tre in the wod with the hondes of the woꝛke man, and faſhion it with the axe: they couer it ouer with golde oꝛ ſyluer, they faſten it wᵗ nales and hammers, that it moue not.

1535 October 14 (Gregorian calendar), Myles Coverdale, transl., Biblia: The Byble, […] (Coverdale Bible), [Cologne or Marburg]: [Eucharius Cervicornus and Johannes Soter?], →OCLC, Jeremy [Jeremiah] x:[3–4], folio xxviii, verso, column 1:


Your Highnessness

(humorous, rare) Synonym of Your Highness.


quhatsoever

(especially Scotland) Obsolete spelling of whatsoever.


every one

[…] that Elinor’s merit should not be acknowledged by every one who knew her, was to her comprehension impossible.

1811, [Jane Austen], chapter III, in Sense and Sensibility […], volume I, London: […] C[harles] Roworth, […], and published by T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, pages 30–31:


Your Rottenness

From your + rottenness, from rotten (“cruel, mean, immoral”). Compare Your Majesty and Your Highness.

[Iago is running on the same place, to turn wheels on a machine that produces an artificial storm required to cast a magical spell]
Iago: [panting] With all due respect, Your Rottenness, couldn't we just wait for a real storm?
Jafar: Save your breath, Iago. Faster!

“Ready my vacuum cleaner and pack eight bottles of chartreuse sunscreen. Henry Potty will rue the day he dared defy me!”
Miffie smiled. “Don't worry, Your Rottenness. His series is numbered.”

2008, Valerie Estelle Frankel, Henry Potty and the Deathly Paper Shortage: An Unauthorized Harry Potter Parody, Henry Potty and the Pet Rock, →ISBN, page 53:

(rare) A pseudo-title of respect used towards a villain or another unlikeable person.


Your Dukeness

"Proud to make the acquaintance of your Dukeness," I said, hastily swallowing a quantity of tobacco-juice.

1888 October 27, “The Fakir In England”, in Grip, volume 31, number 803, page 4:

1985, "A Gummi by Any Other Name", season 1, episode 9 of Disney's Adventures of the Gummi Bears
Duke Sigmund Igthorn: I've always known I was a genius, but this time I've surpassed myself.
Ogre: Oh yes, […] Your Dukeness.

(rare, humorous) A pseudo-title of respect used towards a duke.


Your Worshipfulness

Princess Leia: I don't know who you are or where you came from, but from now on, you do as I tell you, OK?
Han Solo: Look, Your Worshipfulness, let's get one thing straight. I take orders from just one person—me.

1977, Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope:

Please let me know, Your Worshipfulness, if I can ever bend over for you again by paying some extra taxes or anything else, anything at all. (wink, wink) All my love, your devoted servant and foot stool, Thinking Dude.

2002 January 17, SkullnBonz, “Re: BUSH & CIA PLANNED 9/11 !!”, in alt.fan.rush-limbaugh (Usenet), message-ID <c814f244.0201162257.1a0195af@posting.google.com>:


Hers

Honorific alternative letter-case form of hers, sometimes used when referring to God or another important figure who is understood from context.


Herself

It is certain that Juan Diego was a virtuous man, who tried to direct his life along the road of righteousness, of honesty, of virtue, and to make all that pleased God bloom, who was chosen by the Mother of God Herself to be Her [i.e. the mother's] messenger.

2006, Eduardo Chávez, Our Lady of Guadalupe and Saint Juan Diego: The Historical Evidence, →ISBN:

Honorific alternative letter-case form of herself, sometimes used when referring to God or another important figure who is understood from context.


Her

Honorific alternative letter-case form of her, sometimes used when referring to God or another important figure who is understood from context.


She

Honorific alternative letter-case form of she, sometimes used when referring to God or another important figure who is understood from context.


Who

I make my pilgrimage to Thee
O God, Who art the pilgrim's hope!
Praised be the Virgin, sweet and pure!
Be gracious to the pilgrimage.

2008, Music for Sight Singing, →ISBN, page 254:

Honorific alternative letter-case form of who, sometimes used when referring to God or another important figure who is understood from context.


Her's

(now nonstandard) Alternative form of Hers.


Your Excellency

head

Your Excellency (plural Your Excellencies)

(formal) A title of respect used when addressing heads of state other than monarchs, heads of government, governors, ambassadors, certain ecclesiastics, royalty, and others holding equivalent rank.


hersen

From Middle English hirselven, hireselven, hurre-selfen, equivalent to her + sen (“self”).

She barely came to church, holed hersen up in that house and roamed moors alone every night! She cursed hersen by letting in Devil and brought a curse down on the whole valley!


whomst

May I embrace him on the Further Shore,
 Where thy tumultuous tide shall never rise
To overwhelm thy fated pilgrims more,
Whomst thou, sad sea, unto the Lord shalt yet restore.

1884, William Reid, Romance of song; or, The muse in many moods, page 63:

"Squaire, whomst did you say were a-hangin' arfter you ?" he asked without advancing a step.

1892, Bret Harte, Overland Monthly and Out West Magazine:

All an' simely, whichever, an' whoever, an' wharsomever, speshually de howcome an' de whatshisname, de 'fo' said, flainter an' flender, le' 'im come headfo'most inter de court-house, whar de high she'ff an' de low kin lay 'im down an' flatten 'im out; all whomst she mought consarn.

1983, Joel Chandler Harris, The Complete Tales of Uncle Remus, compiled and edited by Richard Chase, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, →ISBN, page 762:

(archaic, now chiefly humorous) Nonstandard form of who or whom.


His Excellency

(formal) A title of respect for males used when referring to heads of state, heads of government, governors, ambassadors, ecclesiastics such as Catholic Bishops, Nuncios, royalty and those of equivalent rank.


Her Excellency

(formal) A title of respect for females used when referring to heads of state, heads of government, governors, ambassadors, certain ecclesiastics, royalty, and others holding equivalent rank.


Her Imperial Majesty

His Imperial Majesty (alternative)
Your Imperial Majesty (alternative second-person)

(formal) she; her (in reference to a (female) emperor or empress)


Her Royal Majesty

(formal) A title of respect used when referring to a queen.


His Royal Majesty

(formal) A title of respect used when referring to a king.


Your Imperial Majesty

Your Imperial Majesty (plural Your Imperial Majesties)

Your Imperial Majesties (plural)
His Imperial Majesty (alternative third-person)
Her Imperial Majesty (alternative third-person)

(formal) you (in direct address to an emperor or empress)


smn

(text messaging) Abbreviation of someone.


Your Royal Highness

Your Royal Highness (plural Your Royal Highnesses)

A form of address used for certain members of a royal family.


your Honors

(formal, addressing several judges or magistrates, rare) the plural you


His Highness

(formal) A title of respect for male royals.

Hans Højhed

a title of respect when mentioning a male royal


Her Highness

(formal) A title of respect for female royals.

Hendes Højhed

a title of respect when mentioning a female royal


'ee

Oh, all that's fair; but hark'ee, lads, I must have no grumbling on St. Patrick's Day; so here, take this, and divide it amongst you.

1789, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, St. Patrick's Day, or, The Scheming Lieutenant, act 1, scene 1:

"Look'ee here, Pip," said he, laying his hand on my arm in a suddenly altered and subdued manner; "first of all, look'ee here. I forgot myself half a minute ago. What I said was low; that's what it was; low. […]

1861, Charles Dickens, chapter 40, in Great Expectations:

"Will 'ee have some?" said Martha Ann presently, holding out her apron filled with rosy quarrendens.

1905, Mark Guy Pearse, “Terrible Expensive”, in The Quiver, page 1068:

If a sun-bonneted market woman got in with us, mother could never resist talking to her, and answering the invariable Cornish question: "Wheer be 'ee goin'?" Then would follow the astonished "From Lunnon are 'ee? Aw, my deer!"

1948 November and December, “By Broad Gauge to Cornwall”, in Railway Magazine, page 361:

(Cornwall, archaic, colloquial) Pronunciation spelling of ye (second person pronoun) used like an enclitic, after a consonant


wunna

From Igbo ụnụ. Compare Jamaican Creole unnu.

(Barbados) You (plural); y'all, you guys, you all.


you'uns

Alternative form of you-uns: a second-person plural pronoun.


they-uns

From they + uns, a form of ones representing an older pronunciation of it.

they'uns (alternative)
theyuns (alternative)

(US, Midwestern US and Appalachia) They (third-person plural subject pronoun).

[…] 'only' (she said as if the thought had just struck her, and as if to herself) 'that would be burning up in part the property of one of we uns, as, thank God, the house don't belong to they uns.'

1880, George Chittenden Benham, A Year of Wreck: A True Story, by a Victim, page 106:

"I'd like mighty well to raise myself, and reach a helpin' hand down to they-uns below, but I sure ain't prepared to leave you sad and lonesome." She laughed — a laugh light as a child's. "Do I look sad?" she asked. "I'll be proud as a peacock ...

1903, Emma Rayner, Handicapped Among the Free, page 7:

(US, Midwestern US and Appalachia) Them (third-person plural object pronoun).


yoursen

If yo doan't want to goa, suit yorsen


We

“It seems to me that we are losing sight of the fact that we are artists,” said Miss Madder to Mr. Ehrlebach one evening about a week later, during one of his calls. / “We, with a capital ‘W,’” laughed Miss Larkin, mimicking Rose’s conscious air. / “Well, Mr. Ehrlebach is, anyway, and he ought to be doing some grave artistic studying.”

[1883 May, Minimum [pseudonym], “A Flying Dutchman”, in The Wheelman: An Illustrated Magazine of Cycling Literature and News, volume II, number 2, Boston, Mass.: The Wheelman Company […], →OCLC, chapter XIX (Touring), page 133, columns 1–2:

Yet when Diaz talks one would think he had never achieved anything. He never uses the first pronoun singular, always speaking as “we,” but not the “we” with a capital W habitual to Royalty; just simply we, meaning others in preference to himself. That is why it has been so difficult to draw his picture, to show the modesty lying behind his giant strength.

[1906, Mrs. Alec Tweedie [i.e., Ethel Brilliana Tweedie], “The Legislature and a Vice-President”, in Porfirio Diaz, Seven Times President of Mexico, London: Hurst and Blackett, […], →OCLC, page 390:

But meanwhile, We say frankly that so far We do not have sufficient reason to regard the norms given by Pope Pius XII in this matter as surpassed and therefore not binding; they must therefore be considered valid, at least until we feel in conscience bound to modify them.

1964, Pope Paul VI, quotee, The Catholic Mind, New York, N.Y.: America Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 59:

It may be well to begin by introducing each other. Who are We? You are not, perhaps led astray by the opinion held of Us by certain contemporaries; We are a weak and little man like other men, perhaps more so than other men. Have under standing^([sic]) for Our personal littleness. But We make so bold as to présent^([sic]) Ourself to you under a twofold title: one title is Our own—it is the great love We have for Africa, for you, and for the Peoples you gövern^([sic]) and represent; the other title is not Our own—it was conferred upon Us, and it makes Us humble and bold as We come among you: you know it well, it is the title of Pope, which means Father; and We inherited it from Saint Peter, whose unworthy but authentic successor We are.

1969 August 1, “Ad honorabiles Viros e publico Legumlatorum Coetu Reipublicae Ugandensis”, in Acta Apostolicae Sedis, volume LXI (overall work in Latin), Vatican City: Typis Polyglottis Vaticanis, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 580:

“You mean it was luck?” replied Jason. / “Well…in a way,” replied Berger. “It really means more than that. In a sense, We with a capital “W” are favoring your undertakings. We are watching over all. God sees all. We see all.”

2000, Ronald Turco, “Book”, in Walk East on Burnside, Portland, Ore.: Imago Books, →ISBN, page 135:

“I too love it,” said Eddie. “Y’gotta be very delicate with cancer patients, and the ‘we’ works like a charm.” He seemed sincere. Naidoo looked worried. “I see the ‘we’ with a capital ‘W,’ the royal ‘We.’ My cancer patients can’t argue with King Eddie—”

[2019 November, Samuel Shem [pseudonym; Stephen Joseph Bergman], “The Sick Empire”, in Man’s 4th Best Hospital, New York, N.Y.: Berkley, →ISBN, page 319:

Honorific alternative letter-case form of of we, sometimes used when speaking as an important figure or figures.


utch

(West Country, Somerset, obsolete) Alternative form of utchy.


elsewho

From else + who, patterned on elsewhere. Compare elsewhom, attested since 1542.

For quotations using this term, see Citations:elsewho.

(very rare, nonstandard) Someone else, anyone else.


zirs

What about just a context of events, like "A___ is rich and has just fallen off zir horse. B____ is poor and is still mounted on zirs.

2003 August 22, R. L., “Experiment (was: A problem example, female written males...(long))”, in rec.arts.sf.composition (Usenet):

(rare, nonstandard) That which belongs to zir, the possessive case of ze.


elsewhom

From else + whom. Attested since 1542, but rare; modern uses seem like nonces patterned on elsewhere.

For quotations using this term, see Citations:elsewhom.


somefink

“Mon Dieu, is that me?” breathed Inès. / “You bet it is, dearie,” chuckled Stella. “And I’ll tell you somefink for nuffink. When the Hon. Viscount Benjie sees you tonight, dearie, ’is little wee willie winkie is going to get as ’ard as a bit of Brighton rock. He’ll be N-S-I-T tonight, I betcha.” / “What does that mean?” / “Not Safe In Texas, dearie,” sniggered Stella.

1990, Joan Collins, Love & Desire & Hate, New York, N.Y.: Linden Press/Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 75:


thattun

(colloquial) Contraction of that 'un (that one).


who so

a. 1892, Charles Spurgeon, a sermon
What, no revenue of praise for him who is our gracious Lord and King! He doth not exact from us any servile labor, but simply saith, “Who so offereth praise glorifieth me.”


my learned friend

(law, Australia, British, Hong Kong, New Zealand, Canada) A barrister on the opposing side of a dispute; a member of opposing counsel.


sumn

Pronunciation spelling of something, representing African-American Vernacular English.


both of yours

That means that the retirement plan you earned during the marriage, or at least the portion of it that was earned during the marriage, is both of yours.

2014, Zachary Smith, Esq., We're Getting Divorced: An Insider's Guide Through the Divorce Process:

While the child is both of yours, the birth is yours and yours alone.

2016, Jennifer Evans, Ciara Meehan, Perceptions of Pregnancy from the Seventeenth to the Twentieth Century:

(colloquial) That which belongs to both of you; the possessive second-person pronoun used without a following noun.

mindkettőtöké

that which belongs to both of you; the possessive second-person pronoun used without a following noun


both of ours

“[…] Everything we have is both of ours.”

1981, Meredith Sue Willis, Higher Ground:

The I in this book is me, Dean. But the writing is both of ours.

2011, Dean Karlan, Jacob Appel, More Than Good Intentions: Improving the Ways the World's Poor Borrow, Save, Farm, Learn, and Stay Healthy:

(colloquial) That which belongs to both of us; the possessive first-person pronoun used without a following noun.

mindkettőnké

that which belongs to both of us; the possessive first-person pronoun used without a following noun


the devil a one

The devil a one of me will ever set foot there.

[…] I met just as strange a man, and he sitting on his hat on the banks of the Fairy Lake of Lisnavarna, watching the moon’s reflection in the clear waters, and the devil a one of him knew that he was contrary at all.

1916, Seumas O’Brien, “The Lady of the Moon”, in The Whale and the Grasshopper and other Fables,, Boston: Little, Brown, page 164:

(now regional, dated, idiomatic, slang) Not; with a singular pronoun, negates the clause.


otherwhat

Certes, for no otherwhat (His every action being our witness) than to instruct those who govern and the faithful in general that they should be diligent to learn what opinion is had of them, so they may persevere in good and desist from ill.

1890, Matteo Bandello, The Novels: Now First Done Into English Prose and Verse, page 208:

i. e. do not blurt it out abruptly, but begin by speaking of otherwhat and then gradually and discreetly introduce the mention of me and my case.

1901, Hāfiz, Villon Society, The Poems of Shemseddin Mohammed Hafiz of Shiraz, page 181:

I will go now to speak with Catella and see how she will take it; for hitherto Lattanzio hath gotten none but general replies from her; and for the rest God shall aid me, who knoweth my heart and knoweth that I strive for no otherwhat than to ...

1901 (edition), William Shakespeare, Horace Howard Furness, A New Variorum of Shakespeare, page 366

The lady gave ear to him with a patient mind nor answered otherwhat than, 'My lord, study to content thyself and to satisfy thy pleasure and have no thought of me, for that nothing is dear to me save in so much as I see it please thee.'

1918, Giovanni Boccaccio (original author), Tales from Boccaccio (translated), page 59

(archaic) Something else; (some) other thing; especially in the phrase no otherwhat (“no other thing; nothing else”).


xey

Xey could not help but hesitate. What if xey failed?

2018 September 30, Jeanne Morningstar, “MISC: Finale”, in rec.arts.comics.creative (Usenet):

Dismounting from xeir horse, xey approached stealthily, not making a sound […]

2025, Michel Nieva, Dengue Boy, page 56:

(nonstandard) they (singular). Gender-neutral third-person singular subject pronoun, coordinate with gendered pronouns he and she.


jack-all

“[…], or do you mean her reward is having to do jack-all?”

2015, Amalie Berlin, Breaking Her No-Dating Rule, Harlequin, →ISBN, page 53:

They'd stripped off most of their usual I'm so badass vinyl in deference to the heat, sporting enhanced muscles, chrome accessories that did jack-all but look cool, and throwback pompadours they thought made them seem dangerous.

2018, Sean Grigsby, SA Sidor, Peter McLean, K C Alexander, Pulped Fiction: an Angry Robot Sampler, Watkins Media Limited, →ISBN:


youins

"Massa took us with him to carry mules and horses away from youins." "You thought we would get them. Did you wish us to get the mules?" "Oh, yes, […] We knowed youins cumin', […]"

1867, William Wells Brown, The Negro in the American Rebellion: His Heroism and His Fidelity, page 277:

Dear Minnie Leigh, It has been years since any of yourins people have seen or heard from youins. When paw passed on, he told me what he had done. I wish I would have to know'd child. I would have fetched youins myself.

2019, Karen Wimberley, A Mule, A Cow, and 5 Jugs of Shine, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 168:


you'ins

"Ah tole Mr. McGuire 'bout you an' dah children movin' here dis week from Minnesota. Dah rent's fi'ty dollahs a month, an' Ah gave 'um a ten dollah deposit if 'e'd hold it fer you'ins til you'ins git here Sat'aday ta look at it ta see if you'ins wan' nit."

2016, Judy Newton, Hi Harry, Outskirts Press, →ISBN, page 439: