we'ins

"We got some friends you'ins knows. Rennie Lou and Snuff. They still in that thar jail but we'ins got out. They was the ones what told us about the gold,” one of the bandits replied.

1983, Lois Gladys Leppard, Mandie and the Secret Tunnel, Bethany House, →ISBN, page 353:

Usually 'bout how we'ins is a-losin' our language. Now they match that up with we'ins completely disappearin'. I don't think our language is a-goin' to disappear. They's some good teachers out there […]

1999, Red Ink: A Native American Student Publication:

We'ins bin hyar so long, if t' worlt fin's out 'bout us now, h' ain't gonna chn' us. O', we'ins'll make alotta monch from da tuk'rist, but it h' ain't gonna chan' us. T' elters kno'd dis day wus comin' — we'ins got contingincy plans whin it do happun.

2002, Bruce Kost, The Youngblood Project, Trafford Publishing, →ISBN, page 203:

“You'ins is our army, our only way now to find our little grandson,” the old man said, wiping a tear from his eye. […] “We'ins want to help,” he said with tears again welling up in his eyes.

2012, Paul H. Jones, The Hollow: Living in the Shadows, Tate Publishing, →ISBN, page 246:

As the regiment passed a good many of them asked if “you'ins want going along with we'ins.” These words are decidedly local and original with the South Carolinians.

2019, Constance Hall Jones, The Spirits of Bad Men Made Perfect: The Life and Diary of Confederate Artillerist William Ellis Jones, →ISBN, page 101:


us'uns

'They don't give a fuck what 'appens to us'uns.'

2007, Lawrence James, Warrior Race: A History of the British at War, St. Martin's Press, →ISBN:

Henry sobbed. “Ah bet she really wants ta go ta town too, but won't cuz o us'uns. She thanks we's too little ta go ta town fer tha day.” “Yeah, meybe we'uns should tell her she needs ta get ta town too. She might miss getting what's she needs."

2012, Beverly Marsaw, Charlie and Tadpole: The Last Chapter, →ISBN:

"What yo call us'uns? Free? We's slaves . . . an dat fo damn sho."

2012, Beverly Marsaw, Beyond the Pink Clouds, →ISBN, page 128:

“That makes us'uns rich!” She was sure right about that. We had ourselves some fun, even when we was a-working real hard.

2012, Marilyn Sue Shank, Child of the Mountains, Delacorte Books for Young Readers, →ISBN:

The Cherokee used to be in our area, and more than a few of us'uns done got some of the blood. There's cherry bark tea, black strap molasses, sassafras, pawpaw, a pinch of sulfur, an' a little tetch of turpentine in it.

2012, Eulie Rier Cienfuegos, At Tildy's Thrift, WestBow Press, →ISBN, page 85:


whaten

For quotations using this term, see Citations:whaten.


whatten

Originally a contraction of what kind (of) (the DSL traces the Scots cognate back to Middle English whatkin, whatkyn, but the MED's only example is of the two-word collocation what kyn), later used in place of bare what.

For quotations using this term, see Citations:whatten.

(Northern England, Scotland, Ireland, dialect, archaic) What.


yuz

Love yuz,
Gary Ralph

1981 December 27, Gary Ralph, “Slice of Life”, in Gay Community News, volume 9, number 23, page 5:


xirself

head

xirself (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)


eve'ything

"Put away youah money! Eve'ything is free heah."

Pronunciation spelling
pronunciation spelling

(African-American Vernacular) Pronunciation spelling of everything.


yousselves

[…] for he sat and wept on my shoulder until my shirt was wringing wet where he had been weeping on it. “T'ink o' your little childer and your wives!” bellowed the skipper of the Star of Africa. “Every time yous makes beasts of yousselves wit […]”

"Yous gals enjoy yousselves.” And Sarah quickly walks away. Agnes notices how nervous the big woman is in the presence of Uncle Matthew. For Margaret, it is not unusual; she is use to people being somewhat in awe of her father.

2008, Andrew Shankland, Beyond the Grail: 'A Thorn Rose. Surely Not an Irish Lullaby.', →ISBN, page 109:

(dialectal, rare) Yourselves, reflexive case of yous.


youseself

I'll put youse in de scrap pile youseself if youse makes any such [moves].

"Nuzly, youse looks nutty, youseself!"

1912, Lucille Van Slyke, Eve's Other Children, page 58:

“De team youse don't get no chance to get on if youse don't chase youseself an' dig up a bat, youse solid iv'ry Dutchy!”

1912, Edward Jewitt Wheeler, Frank Crane, editors, Current Opinion ..., page 604:

(dialectal, rare) Yourself, reflexive case of youse.


itsself

It will appear therefore, an ungrounded Hypotheſis to maintain, as ſome have done, that every Fruit or Seed ſhould contain in itsſelf all thoſe Trees and Fruits in Miniature, that were poſſible to be produced hereafter from them. / It is abundantly ſufficient, I think, that all ſuch Fruit, or Seed, as come to Maturity, are productive of their own Species, and that when ſuch Species ſhall be produced, it is from the Seed in itsſelf that conſtitutes it ſuch a Species, ſince without its Seed in itsſelf it is not the Species it was firſt created, and therefore the Seed remaining in the Species is that, which thro’ all Generations maintains their different Kinds, and will one with another be for ever continued.

1745, Benjamin Parker, A Survey of the Six Days Works of the Creation: Philosophically Proving the Truth of the Account Thereof, as Deliver’d by Moses in the First Chapter of Genesis, page 65:

The affection for ſongs in the vulgar tongue began firſt to ſhew itsſelf in the provinces. […] All the old Lais were not, however, of this caſt, nor, indeed, is the etymology itsſelf to be haſtily admitted, the term being frequently applied to ſongs on the moſt light and joyous ſubjects. […] The ſong will ſpeak for itsſelf: […] The French tongue alone was uſed at court, and in the houſeholds of the Norman barons (who deſpiſed the Saxon manners and language), for many centuries after the Conqueſt, and continued till, at leaſt, the reign of Henry VIII. the polite language of both court and country, and as well known as the Engliſh itsſelf: […]

1783, A Select Collection of English Songs, page xix, xlvii, liii:

Q. 290. But does this calculation confine itsself to the length of the day, that is to say: from day-break untill growing of night? / A. No, the time stipulated in the different regions — and as we find it in various works,.— confines itsself solely to the rising- and setting of the Sun; while the day, — if we suppose this to be from the dawn-of-day until the dusk-of-night, — is longer.

1834, William van Houten, Mathematical Geography, page 94:


you man

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-you man.wav

You man are peak (being unfair).

(idiomatic, colloquial, MLE) You (plural).


/me

From IRC (Internet Relay Chat) and related systems, in which this command generates a text-based action performed by a user: for example, /me dances around might produce the message John dances around.

ENOTUITS! /me is already sorely over-committed

2010 January 29, "David E. Wheeler" (username), "[HACKERS] Review: listagg aggregate", in pgsql.hackers, Mailing list

(computing, humorous) I (the person writing)


one another's

The students critiqued one another's proposals.

And I cannot guess what we’ll discover
when we turn the dirt with our arms cupped like shovels;
but I know our filthy hands will wash one another’s
and not one speck will remain.

2005 August 30, Death Cab for Cutie, “Soul Meets Body”, in Plans:

(possessive) The possessive form of one another.


every woman Jill

Coined as a feminine form of every man Jack, based on the male/female pairing of Jack and Jill.

"It's got to happen to us all Every man Jack and every woman Jill of us go the same way."

1934 November 9, The Horsham Times, Victoria, page 9, column 1:

(idiomatic) All the female members of a group with no exceptions.


nofuckingbody

It sure was fucking grand of nofuckingbody to not fucking call and let him know his wife and kid weren't road meat in fucking Indiana.

Nofuckingbody in the world had ever caught on to this.

My mom tells him she can't control me and Roland, but she'll have no trouble testifying that nofuckingbody poisoned no'''fuckingbody.

2010, Jack Olsen, Hastened to the Grave: The Gypsy Murder Investigation:


quis-quis

(…) but is there not also a Scotch word, “quis-quis” (the same in Latin), whoever, whosoever?

1899, James B. Montgomerie-Fleming, Desultory Notes on Jamieson's Scottish dictionary:


quis-quis

en-adj

quis-quis (comparative more quis-quis, superlative most quis-quis)

more quis-quis (comparative)
most quis-quis (superlative)

Strangers arriving in a place and being considered of doubtful character are spoken of as “Very quis-quis sort of people,” meaning, “Whoever, or Whosoever, they may be, we don't know and can't find out.”


both of theirs

That lottery money is both of theirs. They ought to share it.

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


His Beatitude

(Eastern Orthodoxy) An honorific title given to patriarchs


anothers

Thẽ ſhalt thow perceave what it meaneth that the power of this wretched monſtre / muſt be ſtrengthed / by anothers power and not by his awne.

1529, John Frith, transl., A pistle to the Christen reader / The Revelation of Antichrist. Antithesis / wherin are compared to geder Christes actes and oure holye father the Popes., folio lij, recto:

Omnium rerum viciſſitudo eſt, ones falling, is anothers riſing,[…]

1599, [Thomas] Nashe, Nashes Lenten Stuffe, […], London: […] [Thomas Judson and Valentine Simmes] for N[icholas] L[ing] and C[uthbert] B[urby] […], →OCLC, page 8:

[…]euery man ouer-ualuing his owne worth, would be a Commander: euery man vnderprizing anothers value, denied to be commanded.

1625, [Samuel] Purchas, “A true reportory of the wracke, and redemption of Sir Thomas Gates Knight; vpon, and from the Ilands of the Bermudas: his comming to Virginia, and the estate of that Colonie then, and after, vnder the gouernment of the Lord La Warre, Iuly 15. 1610. written by William Strachy, Esquire.”, in Purchas His Pilgrimes. […], 4th part, London: […] William Stansby for Henrie Fetherstone, […], →OCLC, 9th book, § IV, page 1756:

[…]and so they aver to be drunk, or accessory to anothers Distemper (especially supposing the Distemper under command from breaking out into any other sins besides its own dementation, or stupidity) to be a lesse sin, than to call one Drunkard, on the bare sight of him in a Distemper, or but one slender Information.

1654, Richard Whitlock, “Scylla and Charybdis, Or, False Reformations Shipwrack”, in Ζωοτομία, or, Observations on the Present Manners of the English: Briefly Anatomizing the Living by the Dead. With an Usefull Detection of the Mounte Banks of Both Sexes., London: […] Tho[mas] Roycroft, […], pages 511–512:

Theſe ſo great Slaughters, Nations mighty dread, / Like Whirlwinds through ſo many Cities ſpread, / Which might have been anothers cloſing Fame, / Were but his Marches Actions; thus he came: / And in ſo many glorious Conqueſts ſhar’d / The Spoils of War, while he for War prepar’d.

1701, Lucius Annaeus Seneca, “Troades; or The Royal Captives. A Tragedy, […]”, in Edward Sherburne, transl., The Tragedies of L. Annæus Seneca the Philosopher; viz. Medea, Phædra and Hippolytus, Troades, or the Royal Captives, and The Rape of Helen, out of the Greek of Coluthus; […], London: […] S. Smith and B. Walford, […], published 1702, →OCLC, act II, scene ii, pages 241–242, lines 33–38:


one anothers

The Gallies / Haue ſent a dozen ſequent Meſſengers / This very night, at one anothers heeles: / And many of the Conſuls, raiſ’d and met, / Are at the Dukes already.

c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii], page 312, column 1:

Like that of the Thruſh and Swallow in Æſope, Inſteed of mutual loue, kind compellations, whore & thief is heard, they fling ſtooles at one anothers heads.

1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], “Democritus Iunior to the Reader”, in The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, page 56:

They [the Parsees] are tollerated all ſorts of meat; but (in obedience to the Mahomitan and Bannyan ’mongſt whom they live) refraine Beefe and Hog fleſh: they ſeldome feed together, leſt they might participate one anothers impurity: each has his owne cup[…].

1634, T[homas] H[erbert], A Relation of Some Yeares Trauaile, Begunne Anno 1626. into Afrique and the Greater Asia, […], London: […] William Stansby, and Jacob Bloome, →OCLC, page 52:

[…]thus theſe two / Imparadis’t in one anothers arms / The happier Eden, ſhall enjoy thir fill / Of bliſs on bliſs, while I to Hell am thruſt,[…]

1667, John Milton, “Book IV”, 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 505–508:

The property of Contraries is, that they become one anothers Cure; whereupon we who have ſuffered by ſcarcity and dearth, do pray to be relieved by their contraries, cheapneſs and plenty.

1676, Thomas Comber, “Of the Prayers in time of Dearth and Famine”, in A Companion to the Temple: Or, a Help to Devotion in the daily Use of the Common Prayer: In two Parts. Part II, Containing the Litany, with the Occasional Prayers and Thanksgivings., London: […] Henry Brome, […], section V., page 309:


thineself

Accoſtom thineſelf toe do wel on hall occaſions.

1794, “Moral Sentences and Maxims”, in Exercises, Instructive and Entertaining, in False English; […], the fifth edition, Leeds: […] John Binns; […], page 3:

In these manner accustom thineself to breathe freely and imperceptibly, as thee proceeds.

1795, Rudiments of Constructive Etymology and Syntax, London: […] T. Knott, […] G. Nicholson, […], section IV, page 138:

Thou wilt thineself no doubt deny / The soldiers’ wants to supply.

1867, S[usan] E. D. Smith, quoting James Levi Pfluger, edited by John Little, The Soldier’s Friend; Being a Thrilling Narrative of Grandma Smith’s Four Years’ Experience and Observation, as Matron, in the Hospitals of the South, During the Late Disastrous Conflict in America, Memphis, Tenn.: […] the Bulletin Publishing Company, page 283:

Teach in thine own household what you would have others do to thineself.

1888 October 21, Cook, “Correspondence”, in Union Pacific Employes’ Magazine, volume III, number 10, published November 1888, page 317, column 2:

Go, carrion thineself among the tombs; go and ordure thineself in other filthy things and leave true philosophy to real philosophers. Thou believest thineself to be a philosopher; do not deceive thineself.

1889, “Invectives Against a French Physician”, in T. C. Minor, transl., The Evil that has been said of Doctors: Extracts from Early Writers, Cincinnati, Ohio: […] Lancet-Clinic, collation of Le mal qu’on a dit des médecins by S. J. Witkoski [Gustave Joseph Witkowski], chapter XVII, pages 52–53:

Beecher, Rev. Thos., Let Another Man Praise Thee, Not Thineself.

1893, “Miscellaneous”, in List of Duplicates in Michigan State Library for Sale or Exchange, page 6:

“Art not thou fully ashamed of thineself, being fully sufficient to make a horse snort.

1895 April 25, W. A. Toombs, “Chronicles”, in The Bee, sixth year, number 17, Earlington, Ken., column 5:

They well knew that his unalterable rule in public life was “never commit thineself, lest it be your undoing.”

1900 November 5, “Disgusted by Dockery. Thousand Left Kansas City Hall When He Began to Speak. […]”, in St. Louis Globe-Democrat, volume 26, number 170, St. Louis, Mo., section “Dockery Incident”, page 2, column 3:

When thou dost feel anger (a quality of the lower man) boiling up within thy soul’s casket, quickly turn and throw thineself upon the breast of silence.

Thou shalt honor good men and true women, esteeming everybody the same as thineself and bow the knee before none.

1902 October 26, Paul Lambeth, “A Continuous Performance Theatre is Started. Aristocracy in Business. […]”, in The Times, volume 17, number 229, Richmond, Va., section “For School Use”, page 25, columns 1–2:

Prayer is giving, utterly, lavishly—thineself—all, / Prayer is Heaven’s gate unlocked at a sinner’s call.

1909 July 22, Ida Clifton Hinshaw, “Prayer”, in The Union Republican, volume XXXVIII, number 29, Winston-Salem, N.C., page one, column 1:

Thou shalt not steal from thineself, by paying others too much for clothes.

1913 January 2, Meis Clothing Co., “…The Ten Commandments… (Businessfied)”, in The Helena Star, volume 7, number 52, Helena, Okla.:

Thy matriculation requirements are that thou shalt conduct thineself with an humble spirit.

Hie thineself hither.

1914, Happy Days: A Paper for Young and Old, page 10:

Yea, Pauline, it behooveth thee to examine thineself closely, e’en as the time for New Year resolutions draweth nigh.

1915 December 9, “Local Items”, in Canadian Valley Record, volume XI, Canton, Okla., column 3:

Inform Thineself / Not only in matters etherial, but worldly as well.

1917 March 22, Blue Ribbon Laundry, “Inform Thineself”, in Montgomery Times, Montgomery, Ala., page eight:

IF thou, Jack Lait, Knight of the Cap and Bells, wouldst bring back a smile to the anguished faces of the multitude, and still for a time the tongues that clacque in the lantern jaws of the arid few who would build an ark at the approach of a sandstorm; then lend an ear, lad, like a true knight, and prove thineself worthy of thine sires.

1919 November 12, Jack Lait, “In the Wake of the News”, in The Illustrated Daily News, number 120, New York, N.Y., page 5, column 2:

When thou hast to leave the world, why dost thou tie thineself to its concerns?

1922, Champat Rai Jain, “Mythology”, in Confluence of Opposites, 3rd edition, page 265:

Mayhap, thou dost know a damsel in Pawtucket whom thou dost deem passing fair, and whom thou fain wouldst hitch to thineself.

1923 January, Henry J. Pulver, “Views and Reviews”, in The Silent Worker: An Illustrated Monthly Magazine For, By and About the Deaf of the English-Reading World, volume 35, number 4, Trenton, N.J., page 144, column 2:

Thou shalt not underestimate thine opponent nor over-estimate thineself.

1923 April 27, Hugh S. Fullerton, “The Ten Commandments of Sports”, in The Benson Times, volume 20, number 17, Omaha, Neb., page 3, column 2:

Last on the program will be the Concert Band playing a march, “The Pride of the Wolverines” by Sousa; two chorales by Bach which include “Soul, Array Thineself with Gladness” and “O, Sacred Head Now Wounded” by the Brass Section; “A Christmas Festival” by Anderson; and “Joshua” by Yoder.

1951 December 6, “Music, Art Groups To Sponsor Concert, Bazaar On Tuesday”, in The South Side Times, volume XXX, number 12, Fort Wayne, Ind., page one, column 1:

For starters, if you’re going to pig out here, you’d best be able to heal thineself, or pack a personal physician in your carry-on luggage.

2003 June 22, Bill Brownstein, “OK, I’m seduced – this is Nirvana. Wait, it’s Montreal?”, in The Gazette, Montreal, Que., page B1:


your girl

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-your girl.wav

Probably originated from the sense of girl meaning "one's girlfriend".

The minute you pull that one, your girl is out.

(idiomatic, colloquial, humorous, said by a female speaker) I, me, or myself; yours truly.


herselfe

[…]then to raze the Caſtle, and to build a ſumptuous monument for her ſiſter, and a moſt ſumptuous for herſelfe, and the himſelfe to die vpon her tombe.

1598, Philip Sidney, The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia, London: […] William Ponsonbie, page 314:

Antonius the Roman, after hee was ouer come of his enimy, for three daies ſpace ſate ſolitary in the fore part of the ſhippe abſtaining from all company, euen of Cleopatra herſelfe, and afterwards for very ſhame, butchered himſelfe[…]

1632, The Anatomy of Melancholy: What It Is with all the Kinds Causes Symptomes Prognostickes & Seuerall Cures of It, Oxford: […] Henry Cripps, page 99:

For Babylon hath glorified herſelfe] That is, hath uſurped and taken the ſame unto her by wicked devices, with all deceitfullnes of unrighteouſnes: And therefore the Lord who is an enemy to pride, will juſtly caſt her downe by how much ſhee hath exalted herſelfe: according to that ſaying, Whoſoever exalteth himſelfe ſhall be abaſed.

1644, Elias Arnold, transl., A Commentary upon the Divine Revelation of the Apostle and Evangelist Iohn, Amsterdam: […] C. P., translation of original by David Pareus, page 463:


somepony

From some + pony, by analogy with somebody.

I messaged somepony over Tumblr last night / She said "RAWR X3" so it's true love at first sight

2021, Vylet Pony, “ANTONYMPH”, in CUTIEMARKS (And The Things That Bind Us):


whosoëver

[…]; yet God decreed ſaying, Whoſoëver hath ſinned againſt mee, him will I blott out of my booke. Whoſoëver hath ſinned againſt him? If hee ſhould deale ſo with us, who ſhould people the land?

1646, Iohn Featley, A Fountaine of Teares Emptying It Selfe into Three Rivelets, viz of 1 { Compunction. 2 { Compassion. 3 { Devotion. } Or Sobs of Nature Sanctified by Grace. […], Amsterdam: Iohn Crosse, page 387:

Item, that his Majeſtie diſcard and put away the Officers of his Roial Familie and Kingdom, as Treaſurers, and their ſubſtitutes, and all others whoſoëver have behaved themſelvs amiſs in their offices, to his Majeſties great diſſervice, & the univerſal dammage of theſe Kingdoms;

1652, Prudentio de Sandoval, translated by James Wadsworth, The Civil Wars of Spain, in the Beginning of the Reign of Charls the 5ᵗ, Emperor of Germanie, and King of That Nation, London: […] William Du-Gard, page 233:

And they ſhall know that whoſoëver cometh near to the Tabernacle of the Lord without a Calling, to do the Office of a Prieſt, is in danger to die, as Korab did, ver. 13.

1653, William Lyford, An Apologie for Our Publick Ministerie and Infant-Baptism, London: […] William Du-Gard, page 19:

And truly even Plato, whoſoëver well conſidereth, ſhall finde, that in the bodie of his work, though the inſide & ſtrength were Philoſophie, the skin, as it were, and beautie depended moſt of Poëtrie.

1655, Philip Sidney, The Countess of Pembroke’s Arcadia, the tenth edition, London: […] William Du-Gard, page 541:

Therefore whoſoëver thou art, thou ſhalt finde no other waie to go to the Father without this waie, which is Chiſt;

1659, Martin Luther, translated by Henrie Bell, Dʳⁱˢ Martini Lutheri Colloquia Mensalia: or, Dʳ Martin Luther’s Divine Discourses at His Table, &c., the second edition, London: […] William Du-Gard for William Throppe, page 142:

And thereupon hee concluded, that if the Republick were that Prince, to whom it did appertein to govern and protect the Adriatick Sea, it followed neceſſarily, that whoſoëver Navigate’s it, ought to bee ſubject to their laws, in the ſame manner as ſuch are, who travel through a Countrie upon the Land.

1663, Dominium Maris; the Dominion of the Sea, London, pages 18–19:

Truth is Truth, whoſoëver ſpeakes itt:[…]

1753, Benjamin Whichcote, Moral and Religious Aphorisms, London: […] J. Payne, page 85:

[…]: for the Kingdom of the Meſſiah is deſcribed in the Chriſtian Scriptures, as a Stone; on which whoſoëver falls, ſhall be broken; and on whomſoëver it ſhall fall, it will grind him to powder;

1771, The Apology of Benjamin Ben Mordecai to His Friends, for Embracing Christianity; in Seven Letters to Elisha Levi, Merchant, of Amsterdam. With Notes and Illustrations, by the Author and the Editor., London: […] J. Wilkie, page 194:

And whosoëver shall not receive you, departing, from that city, shake the dust from your feet, a witness against them.

1848, Jonathan Morgan, The New Testament of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Translated from the Greek, into Pure English; with Explanatory Notes, on Certain Passages, Wherein the Author Differs from Other Translators., Portland, Me.: S. H. Colesworthy. […], page 92:


whomsoëver

And according to the cuſtom of Toledo, (which is for the Regidores and Jurates, that are preſent, to draw lots, and one of each to go (upon whomſoëver the lot fall’s)

1652, Prudentio de Sandoval, translated by James Wadsworth, The Civil Wars of Spain, in the Beginning of the Reign of Charls the 5ᵗ, Emperor of Germanie, and King of That Nation, London: […] William Du-Gard, page 44:

[…]; and whomſoëver you go unto, or paſs by, or meet, ſalute him lovingly, or kindly reſalute him whileſt hee is ſaluting you;

1656, Joannes A[mos] Comenius, The Gate of the Latine Tongue Unlocked, London: […] William Du-Gard, page 199:

The firſt Article of that League is, that thoſe Kings ſhould not onely bee at amitie with each other, but alſo that they ſhould defend one another in all manner of Rights, againſt any others whomſoëver, except the Church of Rome, and on the part of the King of England;

1663, John Selden, [Marchamont Nedham, transl.], edited by J[ames] H[owell], Mare Clausum; The Right and Dominion of the Sea in Two Books, London: […] Andrew Kembe and Edward Thomas, page 404:

[…]; whomſoëver and whenſoëver God juſtifieth, hee alſo ſanctifieth:[…]

1753, Benjamin Whichcote, Moral and Religious Aphorisms, London: […] J. Payne, page 33:

For he said, to Moses, I will pity whomsoëver I will, and compassionate whomsoëver I will.

1848, Jonathan Morgan, The New Testament of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Translated from the Greek, into Pure English; with Explanatory Notes, on Certain Passages, Wherein the Author Differs from Other Translators., Portland, Me.: S. H. Colesworthy. […], page 195:

The license fee of each, by whomsoëver actually paid, was necessarily paid in the name and right of the peddler who took the license.

1879, Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of the State of Wisconsin, with Tables of the Cases and Principal Matters, volume XLVI, Chicago: Callaghan & Company, page 254:

Of course, the address at the bottom of each label, by whomsoëver used, indicated where and of whom the liniment could be obtained;

1881, Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of the State of Wisconsin, with Tables of the Cases and Principal Matters, volume LII, Chicago: Callaghan & Company, page 579:


allthing

From Middle English althing; equivalent to all + thing.


sumthang

If sumthang is interesting or any Legbitchs need my
personel attention I will insult them via e-mail.

1998 July 7, TooyT, “O.K. Farewell, goodbye eddyose”, in rec.skydiving (Usenet):

(nonstandard, dialectal) Pronunciation spelling of something.


sumting

Mrs. Sealy, recognizing her indifference and lethargy, gave her groceries to prepare her meals but advised her when she went for them: “Why yuh doan pull yuhself togedder gurl an' go an' join de Union an' learn sumting like hair dressing or cake icing to mek somting uh yuhself 'stead o' waiting 'pun dat man. […]

2010 March 10, C. M. Hope, Love and Grief During the Riots and War, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 52:


whoëver

And Mr. Pyle, on Heb. i. i. ſays; “Whoëver will compare the firſt Chapter of the Epiſtle to the Hebrews, and the beginning of St. John’s Goſpel, and other Paſſages of the New Teſtament, with the numerous Expreſſions of Philo Judæus, concerning the Perſonal Character of him whom they all ſtile the Word or Son of God; will, I think, clearly perceive; that the Evangelic Writers did conform themſelves to the well-known Language and Notion of that Time, in this matter.”

1773, The Apology of Benjamin Ben Mordecai to His Friends, for Embracing Christianity; in Seven Letters to Elisha Levi, Merchant, of Amsterdam, London: […] J. Wilkie, pages 73–74:

Donatus, or whoëver is the Author of that Diſcourſe about Comedy, ſays;

1777, Richard Bentley, A Dissertation upon the Epistles of Phalaris: with an Answer to the Objections of the Hon. Charles Boyle, London: […] W. Bowyer and J. Nichols, page 142:

Whoëver shall receive this child, in my name, shall receive me, and whoëver shall receive me, shall receive him sending me.

1848, Jonathan Morgan, transl., The New Testament of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, Portland: S. H. Colesworthy; […], page 93:

For none did-they-heed of humankind on earth, / Nor-the-bad, nor-the-good; whoëver came to them!

1869, Homer, translated by Lovelace Bigge-Wither, A Nearly Literal Translation of Homer’s Odyssey into Accentuated Dramatic Verse, Oxford, London: James Parker and Co., page 394:

Whoëver solicits insurance on behalf of any fire, marine, inland, life or accident insurance company, or transmits for any person other than himself an application for insurance, or a policy of insurance, to or from said company, or advertises that he will receive or transmit the same, shall be held to be an agent of the company to all intents and purposes, unless it can be shown that he receives no commission or other compensation or consideration for such service.[…]Whoëver violates the provisions of this chapter, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding $500, nor less than $50, for each offense.[…]If he did not know who owned the land, he was bound to know that the logs severed from the soil were the property of the owner, whoëver he might be, and that without the consent of such owner he had no right to interfere with the property.

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 461, 462, and 664:

Suitors will not be permitted to plead ignorance of the law that an agent can bind his principal only within the scope of his authority, and that whoëver deals with a special agent, constituted for a special purpose, deals at his peril, and is bound to know the extent of his authority.

1882, Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of the State of Wisconsin, with Tables of the Cases and Principal Matters, volume XLVIII, Chicago: Callaghan & Company, page 39:


everybody and his brother

everybody and their brother (alternative)
everybody and his cousin (alternative)
everybody and their cousin (alternative)
everybody and his dog (alternative)
everybody and their dog (alternative)
everybody and his grandma (alternative)
everybody and their grandma (alternative)
everybody and his mother (alternative)
everybody and their mother (alternative)
everybody and his uncle (alternative)
everybody and their uncle (alternative)
everyone and his brother (alternative)
everyone and their brother (alternative)
everyone and his cousin (alternative)
everyone and their cousin (alternative)
everyone and his dog (alternative)
everyone and their dog (alternative)
everyone and his grandma (alternative)
everyone and their grandma (alternative)
everyone and his mother (alternative)
everyone and their mother (alternative)
everyone and his uncle (alternative)
everyone and their uncle (alternative)

(idiomatic) A large number of people; most people.

boldog-boldogtalan

everyone (hyperbolically), a large number of people


everybody and their cousin

everybody and his brother
everybody and his brother#English


themselues

But those husbandmen said amongst themselues, This is the heire, come, let vs kill him, and the inheritance shall be ours.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Mark 12:7:


Any1 tried overclocking a Pentium 133Mhz sys? Im thinking of doing that?
Any1 any idea...will greatly appreciate any advise.^([sic]) Thanx

1998 December 7, Flamer, “Over a Pentium 133Mhz any1?”, in alt.comp.hardware.overclocking (Usenet), retrieved 2022-06-10:

hi its [*ARS*]BloodFalcon[CL], i was playin with [ mra ] tombat the other night and we were gettin on really well he was about to give me his e-mail just when he got kicked and then didn't come back on, does any1 know him cos i'd really like to play with him again, any1 have his e-mail or icq??? ok thanks every1

2001 February 10, Sally Bunce, “does any1 know [ mra ] tombat”, in alt.games.half-life.counterstrike (Usenet), retrieved 2022-06-10:

any1 here ? any1 here ? any1 here ? any1 here ? any1 here ? any1 here ?
any1 here ? any1 here ? any1 here ? any1 here ? any1 here ? any1 here ?
any1 here ? any1 here ? any1 here ? any1 here ? any1 here ? any1 here ?
any1 here ? any1 here ? any1 here ? any1 here ? any1 here ? any1 here ?
any1 here ? any1 here ? any1 here ? any1 here ? any1 here ? any1 here ?

2001 November 2, Robert Lamb, “any1 here ?”, in alt.games.quake (Usenet), retrieved 2022-06-10:

any1 know how to put a^([sic]) ice rink in the back yard?
well, does any1 know a contractor or company that sells back yard ice rinks?

2002 March 29, jon, “any1 know”, in rec.sport.skating.ice.figure (Usenet), retrieved 2022-06-10:

2021 December 11, SynCity, “Did any1 lost^([sic]) a^([sic]) eternal-spetember^([sic]) acocunt?^([sic])”, in alt.checkmate (Usenet), retrieved 2022-06-10:

(leetspeak, text messaging) Abbreviation of anyone.


I THINK EVERY1 SHOULD UNKILL S!LLY the SOD

1999 October 2, B!LLYNOSE[TiT][PUS], “AM I Still Killfiled By Every1???”, in alt.games.half-life.tfclassic (Usenet), retrieved 2022-06-10:

I am getting tired of every1 complaining about Funmations "version" of DBZ. I don't like it anymore thatn^([sic]) you do. Why doesn't someone start a petition for completly^([sic]) uncut DBZ and send it to Funmation when you get alot^([sic]) of signatures. If you don't want to start one try to find a page that does and tell every1 you know to go sign it. This is just a suggestion

2000 May 17, Goku...@webtv.net, “I'm tired of every1 complaining about.”, in alt.fan.dragonball (Usenet), retrieved 2022-06-10:

(leetspeak, text messaging) Abbreviation of everyone.


your boy

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-your boy.wav

ya boy (alternative)
ya boi (alternative)

(idiomatic, colloquial, humorous, said by a male speaker) I, me, or myself; yours truly.


anyshit

You better beleive^([sic]) it!... I still refuse to beleive^([sic]) the NBA and all its "virtuousness" would really have pulled the plug on its most prominent international market. With its global plans it NEEDED Toronto more than T.O needed the NBA!...Anyshit, ProLine won't be carrying NBA games anymore (I think US College b-ball took its place).

1995 October 1, erdelyi, “ProLine carring NBA games?”, in rec.sport.basketball.pro (Usenet), retrieved 2022-08-21:

Anyshit, coding is very simple therefore you first design then code/ IE/ the way we did alt.teens site.

2000 July 12, Re:, “You guys are too damn slow~”, in alt.teens (Usenet), retrieved 2022-08-21:

Sure. I'd love to "fill you in", lol.
But anyshit, about the show...
I wouldn't worry about it. You weren't on it. lol.

2001 August 1, WavyG, “Missed tonight's episode”, in alt.tv.real-world (Usenet), retrieved 2022-08-20:


wͨ

That which is croked, can none make ſtraight: & that wͨ faileth, cã not be nõbred.

1560, [William Whittingham et al., transl.], The Bible and Holy Scriptures Conteyned in the Olde and Newe Testament. […] (the Geneva Bible), Geneva: […] Rouland Hall, →OCLC, Ecclesiastes 1:15, folio 277, verso:

[folio A4, recto] Wee ſawe in this Countrey many Vines growing naturally, which growing vp take hold of the trees as they do in Lombardie, wͨ if by huſbandmen they were dreſſed in good order, without all doubte they woulde yeelde excellent wines: […] [folio B2, verso] They are very pitiful and charitable towardes their neighbours, they make great lamentations in their aduerſitie ⁊ in their miſerie, the kinred recken vp all their felicitie, at their departure out of life, they vſe mourning mixt wͭ ſinging, wͨ continueth for a lõg ſpace. […] [folio D2, recto] He ſaith that it is a very great countrey and as it were a newe world, the people very rude and voyde of all goodneſſe, they goe all naked ſo that they are miſerablie vexed with colde, neyther haue they the wit to couer their bodies wͭ beaſts ſkins, wͨ they take in huntinge, they haue no kind of metal, they liue by hũting, they carie certaine lances of wood, made ſharp at yͤ point, they haue bowes, the ſtringes whereof are made of beaſtes ſkinnes:[…]

1582, Iohn Verarzanus [i.e., Giovanni da Verrazzano], and Nicolas [i.e., Nicolò] Zeno; Antonio Zeno, “To the Most Christian King of Fraunce, Fraunces the First. The Relation of Iohn Verarzanus a Florentine, of the Lande by Him Discouered in the Name of His Maiestie, Written in Diepe the Eight of Iuly 1524” and “The Discourse of the Isles of Frisland, Iseland, Engroueland, Estotiland, Drogeo and Icaria, Made by M. Nicolas Zeno, Knight, and M. Antonio His Brother”, in R[ichard] H[akluyt], compiler, Divers Voyages Touching the Discouerie of America, and the Ilands adiacent vnto the Same, […], London: […] [Thomas Dawson] for Thomas Woodcocke, […], →OCLC:

Know you on wͨ ſide / They haue plac’d their men of truſt?

c. 1608–1609 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Coriolanus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene vi], page 6, column 1:

Monſter, your Fairy, wͨ you ſay is a harmles Fairy, / Has done little better then plaid the Iacke with vs.

1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i], page 15, column 2:


wtvr

(Internet slang, text messaging) Abbreviation of whatever.


yaself

Ya look like anything ’cept a tourist who’s come to lose his wad and they get a bad case of nose trouble. Take yaself. Anyone can see ya’re a Limey even before ya start talking.

1956, Ian Fleming, chapter 15, in Diamonds Are Forever:

(nonstandard or dialectal) Alternative form of yourself.


their's

Colonel Middleton was dismounted amongst the king's forces, of whom one, taking him for a commander of their's, mounted him again, and bid him make haste, and kill a roundhead; and so he escaped.

1720, Daniel Defoe, Memoirs of a Cavalier, published 1840, page 331:

“Forward, the Light Brigade!” / Was there a man dismay’d? / Not tho’ the soldier knew / Some one had blunder’d: / Their’s not to make reply, / Their’s not to reason why, / Their’s but to do and die, / Into the valley of Death / Rode the six hundred.

1855, Alfred Tennyson, “The Charge of the Light Brigade”, in Maud, and Other Poems, new edition, London: Edward Moxon, […], published 6, →OCLC, stanza 2, page 162:

Irish ladies have feet very pretty, / English ladies have their's very small; / French ladies' are dressish and natty, / Chinese ladies have no feet at all.

1867, Joseph Edwards Carpenter, The Entertainers' Song Book, page 80:


youall

Why not believe he's courted and won her and ain't youall lucky he came down here bringing youall the good news?

2002, Christopher Metress, The Lynching of Emmett Till: A Documentary Narrative, page 283:


you-alls

I tell you-alls the whole camp hits up the Yukon for Dawson jes' like Sam Scratch was after them,—wimmen, children, babes in arms, the whole shebang.


faerself

Solomon faerself is ambiguous about the term, suggesting of The Deep that: […]

2021, Megan de Bruin-Molé, "Salvaging Utopia: Lessons for (and from) the Left in Rivers Solomon’s An Unkindness of Ghosts (2017), The Deep (2019), and Sorrowland (2021)", Humanities, Volume 10, Issue 4 (link)

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:

For Sara, growing up in a Baptist home and being involved in the Baptist church faerself is not in contradiction to the usage of southern folk magic common in the south.

2022, Gina Snooks, "Between Words: Artful Auto/Biography and/as Pagan Healing", thesis submitted to Western University, page 90

(rare, nonstandard) Reflexive case of fae.


faers

But familiarity with Solomon (fae/faer/faers)’s previous work led me to believe this would not be simply (for lack of a better phrase) torture porn.

2021 July 24, Christina Orlando, “Monstrosity: On Rivers Solomon’s 'Sorrowland'”, in Los Angeles Review of Books:

Once we see Soul's gorgeous glass work, we immediately recognize the piece as theirs/faers because the because the bouquets are arranged in the shape of their/faer scars, which is a stylemark of Soul's art.

2022, Sherry Paris, You Can Make a Difference!: A Creative Workbook and Journal for Young Activists, page 117 (bolding in original altered for emphasis)

They paused at a door halfway down the corridor and waved their key at the lock pad. “Here—press your hand here to add your biometrics, please.”
Ari did so, and then stepped aside to let Bettea press faers, too.

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

(rare, nonstandard) Possessive case of fae.


a fair few

An indefinite and somewhat large number; more than a few; a fair number of.


a fair few

An indefinite and somewhat large number.


theirsens

(dialect) Alternative form of theirsen (“themselves”).


our's

And yet whereinſoever they differ, if their caſe exceed our’s in ſome reſpects, it is exceeded by our’s in ſo many more, as may ſufficiently juſtifie us, and oblige us to the like Lamentation.

1678, William Lloyd, A Sermon at the Funeral of Sʳ Edmund-Berry Godfrey, One of His Majesties Justices of the Peace, Who Was Barbarously Murthered. […], London: […] Tho. Newcomb, for Henry Brome […], page 10:

“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:

Your only blunder was confined to my ear, when you imagined a certain friend of our’s in love with the lady.

1815 December (indicated as 1816), [Jane Austen], chapter X, in Emma: […], volume III, London: […] [Charles Roworth and James Moyes] for John Murray, →OCLC, page 182:

Thus the service in the course of this address proceeds to warn us of the new responsibilities to which we may expect to be called, when as parents it will be our’s to “bring up children in the fear and nurture of the Lord, and to the praise of his holy name:” […]

1842, John James, The Mother’s Help Towards Instructing Her Children in the Excellencies of the Catechism, and of the Services Appointed by the Church of England for the More Special Occasions Which Mark Christian Life, London: […] J. G. F. & J. Rivington, […], page 369:


any body

The belief that the disease is frequently due to the engagement of foreign bodies in the cavity of the organ, is based to a large extent upon purely speculative or imaginary conditions, or erroneous observations. In an exceptionally large experience in the operative treatment of this disease, in but two instances was any body found other than soft fecal masses, which could be construed as being in any sense “foreign.”

1894, George R[yerson] Fowler, “The Etiology of Appendicitis”, in A Treatise on Appendicitis, Philadelphia, Pa.: J. B. Lippincott Company, page 67:

A typical case is that of Prince Tumanov, whose body, it was announced in many newspapers, had been found floating in the Moika Canal. A few hours later this was denied by the Prince’s family, who added that the Prince was under arrest, so the press identified the dead man as General Demissov. The General having also come to life, we investigated, and could find no trace of any body having been found whatever.

1919, John Reed, “Plunging Ahead”, in Ten Days That Shook the World, New York, N.Y.: Boni and Liveright, page 121:

“He is dead. I mean—he was. Wasn’t he?” / Phyllis said, “There never was any body found, and though the police claim to have questioned a lot of people involved in drugs around here and in Philadelphia, no one seems to know anything definite.[…]”

1997, Rosamond Smith [pseudonym; Joyce Carol Oates], Double Delight, New York, N.Y.: Dutton, →ISBN, page 321:

Good, Maggie thought. Get on it. Only you can prevent strip-mall fires, Smokey. "But was any body found?" / "We think so. Not much left. You know bones do burn if the temperature gets high enough. That's how they get the ashes to go into those little memorial bottles they give to families to throw to the winds instead of burial."

2017, Leon Shure, “Littlemayor, a City of Brunswik Mystery”, in The Brunswik Mystery Trilogy, chapter 9, page 291:

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see any, body.


any one

You can borrow any one book at a time.

Which book can I borrow?' -Any one.

Sondern took the cards and shuffled them with clumsy haste. Two or three fell between his excited fingers to the floor. “Doesn’t matter a bit,” he said. He offered the pack face down to the other man. “Take any one,” he said. “Go on, any one at all.”

1958, Ralph Allen, Peace River Country, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Company, Inc., page 34:

The theory of computability began with two questions that have not been answered: What is a computation? What is an algorithm? Rather than answering either one of those questions, the development of the theory of computation proceeded by providing specific computational systems, and then characterized the computable as whatever can be computed in any one of these several systems.

1992, Merrilee H. Salmon, John Earman, Clark Glymour, James G. Lennox, Peter Machamer, J. E. McGuire, John D. Norton, Wesley C. Salmon, Kenneth F. Schaffner, Introduction to the Philosophy of Science, Hackett Publishing Company, published 1999, →ISBN, page 378:

■ don’t spend ages choosing a card – just take any one

2009, Pat Francis, Inspiring Writing in Art and Design: Taking a Line for a Write, Intellect Books, →ISBN, page 152:

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see any, one.


every thing

[…] he promised to do every thing in his power to make them comfortable.

1811, [Jane Austen], chapter I, in Sense and Sensibility […], volume I, London: […] C[harles] Roworth, […], and published by T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 6:

His wardrobe was extensive—very extensive—not strictly classical perhaps, nor quite new, nor did it contain any one garment made precisely after the fashion of any age or time, but every thing was more or less spangled; and what can be prettier than spangles?

1836 March – 1837 October, Charles Dickens, “In which is Given a Faithful Portraiture of Two Distinguished Persons; […]”, in The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1837, →OCLC, page 151:

The old man and his wife bestirred themselves to make every thing ready for the unexpected guests, […]

1872, James De Mille, The Cryptogram, published 2009:


any thing

All this may clarify what I mean by the other thing, by the distinction between object and thing, but such clarity comes, of course, at the expense of the local detail where any thing occurs.

2015, Bill Brown, “Things—in Theory”, in Other Things, Chicago, Ill., London: The University of Chicago Press, published 2019, →ISBN, page 23:

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see any, thing.


us-selves

Let's live for summat else. Let's not live ter make money, neither for us-selves nor for anybody else.[…]

1928, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, chapter XV, in Lady Chatterley’s Lover, [Germany?]: Privately printed, →OCLC:


everybodies

We bust apart, and say spiteful things about one another, like all the other damned intellectuals in the world. Damned everybodies, as far as that goes, for they all do it.

1928, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, chapter 4, in Lady Chatterley’s Lover, Gutenberg edition, [Florence, Italy]: [ […] Tipografia Giuntina, […]], →OCLC; republished as Lady Chatterley’s Lover (eBook no. 0100181h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, August 2011, archived from the original on 2020-11-11:

‘Come along now everybodies,’ said James. ‘No point in blaming our revered manager.’

2022, Guy Compton, Dead on Cue, Hachette, →ISBN:


yͧ

But yͧ craftily crepeſt into yͤ enemies boſom to make thẽ thy frẽds ⁊ receaueſt ſom of their pꝛocedings either in doctrine oꝛ in obſeruaunces, whiche geueth them iuſt cauſe to be in hope, yͭ thou wilt ſubſcribe to al their pedlary, ⁊ they maintein al their erroꝛs the moꝛe ſtoutely, bicauſe they haue won thee to be an ayder, either wͭ al thy hart oꝛ in coũtenance at leaſt.

1562, [Johann Wigand; unknown, transl.], De Neutralibus et Mediis. Grossly Inglyshed, Iacke of Both Sydes. A Godly and a Necessary Catholike Admonicion, Touching Those That Be Neutres, Holding vpon No Certayne Religion nor Doctryne, […], London: […] Richard Harrison, signature L.v., recto:

Why ſhould ſhe thẽ be lothſome to thee, becauſe of a little ſuffering, that yͧ ſhouldest lust after an other, that ſhould defile thy ſoule […]

1573, “An exposition vppon the v. vi. vii. chapters of Mathew, which three chapters are the keye and the dore of the scripture, and the restoring agayne of Moses law corrupte by the Scribes and Pharises. And the exposition is the restoring agayne of Christes lawe corrupte by the Papistes.”, in The Whole Workes of W[illiam] Tyndall, Iohn Frith, and Doct[or [[w:Robert Barnes (martyr)|Robert] Barnes]], Three Worthy Martyrs, and Principall Teachers of This Churche of England, Collected and Compiled in One Tome Togither, Beyng Before Scattered, ⁊ Now in Print Here Exhibited to the Church. […], London: […] Iohn Daye, […], fifth chapter, page 206, column 1:

As I beſought thee to abide ſtill in Epheſus, whẽ I departed into Macedonia, ſo do, that yͧ mayeſt warne ſome, that they teach none other doctrine, […]

1580, Theod[ore] Beza, French transl., L. Tomson, English transl., “The First Epistle of Paul to Timotheus”, in The Newe Testament of Our Lord Iesus Christ, […], London: […] Christopher Barker, […], chapter I, verse 3, folio 320, recto:

By heauen (fond wretch) yͧ knowſt not what thou ſpeak'ſt,
 Or elſe thou art ſuborn'd againſt his honor
 In hatefull practiſe: […]

c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Measure for Measure”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i], page 80, column 2:

(Early Modern, obsolete) Abbreviation of thou.


oneselves

In a library, it is discouraged to talk amongst oneselves.

But over it, above everything, there mounted that atmosphere which is the marked characteristic of such assemblies, the vaporisation of a sentiment shared by all, that of being among oneselves, and of being thereby generally and solidly united by nothing whatever.

1909, Edgar Saltus, Daughters of the Rich, New York, N.Y.: The Macaulay Company, page 118:

For the most part the younger crowd were sexually involved with each other. "One could sort of run around amongst oneselves," Laura recalled, "but certainly one did not invade the love lives, the sacred marriages, of the older group."

1993, Esther Newton, Cherry Grove, Fire Island: Sixty Years in America's First Gay and Lesbian Town, Boston, M.A.: Beacon Press, →ISBN, page 213:

On UCLA's end, the halftime assignment was a hard mix of believing in oneselves and believing in luck.

1993 March 22, Mike Downey, “Not Even the Final Proof Provides Enough Solace”, in Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, Calif.: Los Angeles Times Communications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-05-31:

These possibilities are so similar to what actually happened to us as children raised in violence that the current situation may feel like a replay of the past — of being powerless, disbelieved, and unable to defend oneselves or to escape from the problem.

1994, Christina Crawford, No Safe Place: The Legacy of Family Violence, Barrytown, N.Y.: Station Hill Press, →ISBN, page 9:

A cost-benefit analysis as applied to volition is the process through which individuals identify their overarching goal or goals, perhaps freely, perhaps not, then choose a particular course of action. The individual would then consider the following variables: the most likely benefits of a particular course of action to oneself (and perhaps others), the possible negative consequences of the act (to oneselves and perhaps others), the likelihood of achieving the benefits, the likelihood of negative consequences and their likely degree, and based on all these factors, whether the course of action will achieve the goal (benefit) with the fewest consequences (costs).

2014, Bruce A. Arrigo, editor, Encyclopedia of Criminal Justice Ethics, volume 2, Los Angeles, C.A. […]: SAGE reference, →ISBN, page 1004, column 1:

As things stand, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex will be dividing their time between the UK and North America, and have issued a statement announcing they will "step back as 'senior' members of the royal family". This feels very middle-management speak. I'm not sure it [the statement] is for oneselves to describe oneselves as "senior" members of the royal family in print.

2020 January 9, Marina Hyde, “Meghan and Harry's story is quite the drama, but it's no abdication crisis”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-08-08:

(reflexive pronoun, rare) The reflexive case of the pronoun ones; a group of people in general.


hée

The King ſent to the Londoners requeſting to borrowe of them one thouſande pounde, whiche they ſtoutely denyed, and alſo euil entreated, bette and néere hand ſlew a certain Lumbard that woulde haue lent the King the ſayde ſumme, which when the King heard he was maruellouſly angried, and calling togither almoſt all the nobles of the lande, hée opened to them the malitiouſneſſe of the Londoners, and cõplayned of theyr preſumption, the whyche noble men gaue counſell, that their inſolencie ſhoulde with ſpéede be oppreſſed, and theyr pride abated.

1580, Iohn Stow (collector), The Chronicles of England, from Brute vnto This Present Yeare of Christ 1580., London: […] Ralphe Newberie, […], page 512:

The Captaine in a Shippe of warre, is a iollie fellowe, and thinketh himselfe a lyttle God, because hee speaketh prowdlie to the Souldiors, and maketh them quayle at the shaking of his lockes: […] If any be vnrulie, hee casteth him ouerboorde, or if any be fearefull, hee bindes him to the Maste: if hée crie aloofe, the Helmes man dares not goe roomer: and if hée bidde shoote, the gunner dares not but giue fyre.

1581, Richard Madox, A Learned and a Godly Sermon, to be read of all men, but especially for all marryners, captaynes and passengers, which trauell the seas, London:

After that Huon and the good Abbot had deuised together of diuers things, Huon wrote a Letter vnto his men being at Tournous, that they should come vnto him to the Abbey of Cluny, hee sent a Gentleman of the Abbey to fetch them, and when hée was come to Tournous, and had deliuered his Letters vnto Barnard, they made them readie, and trussed their Somers and departed from thence, and they road so longe, that they came in at the gates of the Abbey of Cluny, the same time Huon and the Abbot were leaning out at a window, the Abbot saw fiftéene Somers charged, and seauen Mules and Mulets, whereof he had great maruaile of whence they were, and said to Huon.

1601, The Ancient, Honorable, Famous, and Delighfull Historie of Huon of Bourdeaux, One of the Peeres of Fraunce, and Duke of Guyenne Enterlaced with the Loue of Many Ladies, as Also the Fortunes and Aduentures of Knights Errant, Their Amorous Seruants, London: […] Thomas Purfoot:

As for the Tapſter, he fled into the Cellar, rapping out fiue or ſixe plaine Country oathes, that hée would drowne himſelfe in a moſt villanous Stand of Ale, if the ſicke Londoner ſtoode at the doore any longer.

1603, Thomas Dekker, “The VVonderfull Yeare”, in The Non-Dramatic Works of Thomas Dekker, volume I, published 1884, pages 123–124:

This was the worke of God, that hée might ſeparate the Pure from the Impure: that is to ſay, that he might reduce the more pure and Ethereal Mercury, the more pure and inextinguible Sulphur, the more pure, and more fixed ſalte, into ſhyning and inextinguible Starres and Lights, into a Chriſtalline and Dyamantine ſubſtance, or moſt ſimple Bodie, which is called Heauen, the higheſt, and fourth formall Element, and that from the ſame, the Formes as it were ſéedes, might be powred forth into the moſt groſſe elements, to the generation of all things.

1605, Iosephus Quersitanus, “Moses in his Genesis sheweth the three beginnings Philosophicall which are in euery thing created”, in Thomas Timme, transl., The Practise of Chymicall, and Hermeticall Physicke, for the Preseruation of Health, London: […] Thomas Creede, “The First Booke of the Practise of Chymicall Physicke”:


himselves

Coordinate term: herselves

It was infuriating, because Carpenter was only ninety or two hundred and seventy degrees away, but without the right gadgetry or guaranteed stone-cold reliable method of cheating (damn Mr Tanner's mum to goblin hell for taking the bloody thing from him, just when he really, really needed it) he had no hope whatsoever of establishing contact between himselves.

2005, Tom Holt, Earth, Air, Fire and Custard, London: Orbit Books, →ISBN, pages 173–174:

Mr D P Roberts, however, describes himself or himselves as a radical libertarian revolutionary and a "centre of trust" for all Silk Road's otherwise decentralised operations.

2013 August 21, “Why is the man behind the Silk Road drugs website speaking to the press?”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2015-10-07:

When Clayton Stern entered the Hall of Mirrors he saw a number of himselves sneering back at him.

2014, Doug Sacrison, The Gelatin Coast, →ISBN, page 348:

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


herselves

Coordinate term: himselves

She had a vision of two of herselves, living in different universes. A world had once existed with one Novena in it; it still must exist, she must still be there, yet here she was.

2000, Sandra Shea, The Realm of Secondhand Souls, Boston, M.A., New York, N.Y.: Houghton Mifflin Company, →ISBN, page 40:

Most of herselves felt variations on her present anxieties, but a few were filled with strange emotions changing too fast to identify. Concentrating on one of these improbable futures was like trying to barehandcatch an oiled gecko, And yet... Leandra couldn't resist mentally chasing these bright futures.

2016, Blake Charlton, Spellbreaker, London: HarperVoyager, →ISBN, page 21:

Where did it all go wrong, she wondered, easing out of bed, uncertain of what to do with herselves, uncertain of which self was her self and which self was someone else.

2023 April 24, Catherine Lacey, “Congratulations on Your Loss”, in Slate, archived from the original on 2023-08-07:

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


thineselves

Thou hast praised thineselves for self-giving as if thee, and thee alone, had created a bountiful harvest. I say to each and every one of thee; Hast thou forgotten the Supreme Creator?

1974 November 16, Goodman Ace, “Top of My Head”, in Saturday Review, volume 2, number 5, New York, N.Y.: Saturday Review/World, Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 28:

Both, look to thineselves, for thou hast lost / thy footing and thy defense in one slick step's descent!

2005, Melanie Jackson, Divine Fire, New York, N.Y.: Love Spell, →ISBN, page 354:

"Mine love and gratitude to ye Fallen Angels, still marked with battle brine. Thine honor is restored. Ye require naught more than a bath to cleanse thineselves, as do all creatures great and small. I honor thee."

2015, S[ilvia] Acevedo, God Awful Loser, Milwaukee, W.I.: Three Points Publishing, →ISBN, page 335:

The Merc with the Mouth is BACK, BITCHES! Prepare thineselves for more over-the-top action, blood-soaked gore, and fourth-wall-breaking comedy than you can shake a stick at!

2023 June 23, Jack Doyle, “The 'Deadpool 3' Cast Is Melting Our Brains”, in The Mary Sue, archived from the original on 2023-07-24:

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


𐑲

Ligature of the letters ⟨𐑨⟩ /æ/ and ⟨𐑦⟩ /ɪ/.


smtg

If you see smtg. wrong is done and you can't influence those wrong doers, than you have to leave this place immediately.

1992 June 13, Ekrem Saban, “Islam and tolerance for other religions”, in soc.religion.islam (Usenet):

I don't see negative side effect for Bentley, once you sell smtg that installs well in the current configuration: it surely will start spreading Microstation in the Linux world, building a large user base, ready for the time when more engineers will turn to Linux.

1998 March 26, Maurizio Ferrari, “Any CAD package for linux ??”, in comp.os.linux.questions (Usenet):

I guess I could initiate smtg like that...

1998 June 11, george apollo, “Stephan Bacoyanis, Capt. of the SS Washington, 1923”, in soc.culture.greek (Usenet):

There are a couple requirements for e-cash to fullfill: ¶ - anonymity. If I buy smtg from you with e-cash and you buy smtg else with it, there must be no way for the third person (or anyone else) to trace that particular e-cash back to me.

2006 August 15, Nospam, “e-coin concept”, in sci.econ (Usenet):

I remember I heard smtg about Mawar Rashid being so heartbroken in her previous relationship.

2017 December 2, @PhoebeShafinaz, Twitter, archived from the original on 2023-09-21:

Hey Twitter, why are you random refresh huh? I was reading smtg.

2021 August 23, @IndraGondi, Twitter, archived from the original on 2023-09-21:

(text messaging) Abbreviation of something.


suttin

My dad texts me like he's tryna grab a draw or suttin 😂

2019 February 20, @paydrouk, Twitter, archived from the original on 2023-10-15:

Maybe Creeper wouldn't have done it if all the mandem hadn't been out on the block, soaking up the sun. But they were and Trickz talked greaze, he didn't show man the slightest bit of respect, so Creeper had to do suttin.

2021, Gabriel Krauze, Who They Was, New York, N.Y. […]: Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 15:

(especially New York City) Pronunciation spelling of something, representing African-American Vernacular English.


yersen

Alternative form of yoursen (“yourself”).


Thingy

He reminds me of Thingy from that film.

Alternative letter-case form of thingy (“a person whose name one cannot recall”).


everyfur

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From every + fur (“clipping of furry”), perhaps by analogy with everypony from the My Little Pony media franchise, itself an analogy with everybody.

Attention Everyfur...
Peter Da Silva has set-up wonderful SPAM-FREE furry newsgroups and I would like to do my part to help bring furry fans over to this wonderful system.

1996 December 3, AberDeen Foxx, “FUR: Everyfur switch to FUR.*”, in alt.fan.furry (Usenet):

We shoed up at almost same time, Ziphorra. Soon here will be so much of food so we could open a picnic and invite everyfur, what do you think?

2002 April 2, Darquan, “Hello, everyfur”, in alt.lifestyle.furry, Google Groups:

Merry Christmas, everyone and everyfur! (in a few hours, anyway)

Hi, everyfur! I've been in the Furry Fandom for 4 years, and I guess I'm still considered a 13-year-old (Because if you aren't 21, you're 13 until you are 21 by legal age.) and I'm what the fandom calls, a 'Young Fur'. I've been seeing a lot of posts all over the place because people are complaining about Young Furs wanting to have fursuits.

2017 April 12, u/Nuwknon, “Younger Furs In The Fandom Wanting Fursuits”, in r/furry, Reddit:

Everyfur help Juno out. They Arknights, Blue Lock, Kengan, and recently got blasted by the evil devils of Car Seat Headrest

(furry fandom) Everybody; or, every furry.


somefur

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From some + fur (“clipping of furry”), perhaps by analogy with somepony from the My Little Pony media franchise, itself an analogy with somebody.

OK. I know the events of yesterday don't belong here on this discussion board but I need to talk with someone or in this case somefur. These events and what I've been reading on MSNBC and CNN scare the living crap out of me. Not from terrorists. But from the reaction of the US citizens and the US government. There is going to be an outcry by US citizens for solutions to this problem.

2001 September 12, Kellic J. Tiger, “[OT] What is this going to do to our freedom?”, in alt.lifestyle.furry (Usenet):

Sent some tools and fixing stuff to somefur i fell in love with and started packing to come fur a visit and stuff (^_^)

2007 June 13, v_dragon, “What Did you Do Furry this Week, or Who?”, in alt.lifestyle.furry (Usenet):

Sadly, somefur beat you to it lol

2023 June 25, u/knottycrossfox, Reddit, r/furry_irl:

(furry fandom, slang, rare) Somebody; or, some furry.


sub-cheese

Borrowed from Hindi सब (sab, “all, every”) + Hindi चीज़ (cīz, “thing, object, item”), respelled in a folk-etymological identification with sub- + cheese.

bor+

subcheese (alternative)
subcheeze (alternative)
subchiz (alternative)

Another inch further over would have precipitated the whole sub cheeze, down the incline.

1859, P. & O., Always Ready, or, Every One His Pride, London: Hall, Virtue, & Co., page 175:

'She's as clever as a man, confound her,' Martyn went on. 'She broke up the bungalow over my head while I was talking at her. Settled the whole subchiz [outfit] in three hours—servants, horses, and all. I didn't get my orders till nine.'

1898, Rudyard Kipling, “William the Conqueror: Part I”, in The Day's Work, London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, page 181:

"The whole bloody sub-cheese, the lot!"

1993, George MacDonald Fraser, Quartered Safe Out Here: A Recollection of the War in Burma, London: HarperCollinsPublishers, published 1995, →ISBN, page 187:

'If you'd threatened that earlier, Monty, I'd have ponied up the whole sub-cheese to avoid it.'

2018, Ben Schott, Jeeves and the King of Clubs, London: Hutchinson, →ISBN, page 17:

(originally Anglo-Indian, military slang, archaic) Everything; all there is.


no body

[T]he conflagration was ſo ſuddain that no body had time to ſave himſelf but in that place where he was then; […]

1667, Rege Sincera [pseudonym], Observations Both Historical and Moral upon the Burning of London, September 1666. […], London: […] Thomas Ratcliffe, and are to be sold by Robert Pawlet […], page 20:

The other replied, That for ought they could ſee, the men were quiet, and ſober, and intended no body any harm; […]

1678, John Bunyan, The Pilgrim’s Progress from This World, to That which is to Come: […], London: […] Nath[aniel] Ponder […], →OCLC, page 126:

’Tis very remarkable, that if one of the Cenſors died, no body was ſubſtituted in his room ’till the next Luſtrum, and his Partner was oblig’d to quit his Office; becauſe the Death of a Cenſor happen’d juſt before the ſacking of Rome by the Gauls, and was ever after accounted highly ominous and unfortunate.

1696, Basil Kennett, “Of the Censors”, in Romæ Antiquæ Notitia: Or, The Antiquities of Rome. […], London: […] A. Swall and T. Child, […], →OCLC, part II, book III (Of the Civil Government of the Romans), page 111:

VVhat makes you ſo ſhy of late, my good Friend? There's no Body loves you better than I, nor has taken more Pains in your Affairs: […]

1712, Humphry Polesworth [pseudonym; John Arbuthnot], “An Account of the Conference between Mrs. Bull and Don Diego Dismallo”, in John Bull in His Senses: Being the Second Part of Law is a Bottomless-Pit. […], Edinburgh: […] James Watson, […], →OCLC, page 25:

It vvas his younger Siſters Chamber, that I vvas in, and as there vvas no Body in the Houſe, but the Maids belovv Stairs, he vvas it may be the ruder: […]

1722 (indicated as 1721), [Daniel Defoe], The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders, &c. […], London: […] W[illiam Rufus] Chetwood, […]; and T. Edling, […], published 1722, →OCLC, page 21:

His Mercury having made his obſervations, reported, that there was no body in the coach but Mrs. Hornbeck and an elderly woman, who had all the air of a duenna, and that the ſervant was not the ſame footman who had attended them in France.

1751, [Tobias] Smollett, “Peregrine meets with Mrs. Hornbeck, and is consoled for his loss. […]”, in The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume II, London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC, page 199:


somepn'

I always figured that there was never anything particularly gay about where I'm at: I consider myself a Q U E E R, baby, and that's somepn' else.

1976 August 28, Abe Smith, “Disgusting Ads”, in Gay Community News, volume 4, number 9, page 4:


verself

head

verself (the third person singular, gender-neutral, personal pronoun, the reflexive form of ve)

(reflexive pronoun, rare, nonstandard) the gender-neutral object of a verb or preposition that also appears as the subject


a world of

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in a world of trouble

in a world of pain

in a world of hurt

You should go on vacation, it'll do you a world of good.

There is a world of difference.

But if we start governing or conducting foreign policy by poll, by public opinion poll , we're going to be in a world of hurt.

1995, United States Air Force Academy, United States Intervention Policy in the Post-cold War World, page 22:


yuo

yuo (second person, singular or plural, nominative or objective, possessive determiner yuor, possessive pronoun yuors, singular reflexive yuorself, plural reflexive yuorselves)

en-pron

yuor (determiner possessive)
yuors (possessive pronoun without-noun)
yuorself (reflexive singular)
yuorselves (plural reflexive)

(Internet slang, ironic, humorous) Deliberate misspelling of you.


something like that

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How much did that cost you? Five grand?
Something like that, yeah...

So are you two an item yet?
Eh, something like that.

leading question
leading question#English

(euphemistic) An intentionally vague thing, used in answers to leading questions which the speaker wishes to deflect or evade.


His Imperial Highness

head

His Imperial Highness (plural Their Imperial Highnesses)

(formal) A title of respect for male emperors.


Her Imperial Highness

Her Imperial Highness (plural Their Imperial Highnesses)

(formal) A title of respect for empresses.


urselves

urselves (second person, plural of urself, plural reflexive of u)

urself (plural-of)
of u (plural reflexive)

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(reflexive pronoun, Internet slang, text messaging) yourselves


wtv

(Internet slang, text messaging) Abbreviation of whatever.


wtv

“Started my 90 day celibacy lil s— [shit] for new year’s or wtv,” she [GloRilla] wrote on X. “I’m on da 9th day & my vision blurry af !!!!! Send help😭”

2024 January 10, Hannah Dailey, “GloRilla Reveals She Made a 90-Day Celibacy Pledge — and She’s Already Struggling: ‘Send Help’”, in Billboard:


Whom

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


ya'

1977 February 5, Loren King, “Love Ya', Elaine”, in Gay Community News, volume 4, number 32, page 4:


whomsomever

For our Saviour tells them, Unto whomſomever much is given, of him ſhall be much required.

1700, Francis Grant Cullen, A Discourse, Concerning the Execution of the Laws, page 31:

“Eh man, but ye speak soundly,” said Charlie Goudge, the village carpenter, “in all, save the article of kirkseats, which being of timber, pertain more to my calling. Whomsomever, I would put a roof of red Norway fir over your heads, and erect ye such seats as no man sits in who lends his ears to a read sermon.”

1821 October 10, [Allan Cunningham], “Traditional Literature”, in The London Magazine, volume IV, number XXII, page 410, column 1:


Your Imperial Highness

Your Imperial Highness (plural Your Imperial Highnesses)

A form of address used for an emperor or empress.


Your Lordship

(UK) Used in direct address to certain judges, particularly High Court Judges and above.


Your Serene Highness

Your Serene Highness (plural Your Serene Highnesses)

Princes to whom the predicate of durchlaucht (‘your serene highness’) is accorded.

1879, Baring-Gould, Germany, volume I, page 29:

sovereign prince
sovereign prince#English

(formal) A term of address used in addressing a personage of any of a variety of certain dignities, but chiefly a reigning or sovereign prince, such as those of Liechtenstein and of Monaco.

σὴ λᾰμπρότης

term of address for a personage of a certain dignity, esp. a reigning prince


zirselves

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

personal pronoun
personal pronoun#English

(reflexive pronoun, nonstandard) The reflexive case of zirself, the third-person plural personal pronoun.


xerself

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


They

Then raising Their hands, each god according to his sign, They made the worlds and the suns, and put a light in the houses of the sky.

1905, Lord Dunsany [i.e., Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany], “Of the Making of the Worlds”, in The Gods of Pegāna, London: [Charles] Elkin Mathews, […], →OCLC, pages 4–5:

The question arises in a practical way in two possible situations: either ‘here is Mr. A: he wants to do some research and has a grant of so much for X years’: or ‘here is a problem: They (capital T, please) want us to do research about it and are prepared to pay £X over a period of X years’. Of course these problems are not for the entrepreneur separate: if he can promote an association between Mr. A and Them he has to that extent stabilised and regularised his business.

1975, W[illiam] J[ames] M[illar] Mackenzie, “The Conceptual Framework and the Cash Basis”, in Explorations in Government: Collected Papers: 1951–1968, New York, N.Y.; Toronto, Ont.: Halsted Press, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, section V (Constitutional Theory, Political Theory), pages 305–306:

God is used as the mouthpiece of the parent. You come to feel that you can never be good enough or perfect enough in their eyes or in God’s. Even when you start to think for yourself, you have the dim fear that They (capital T) are right.

1987, Howard F. Stein, “Farmer and Cowboy: The Duality of the Midwestern Male Ethos—a Study in Ethnicity, Regionalism, and National Identity”, in Howard F. Stein, Maurice Apprey, From Metaphor to Meaning: Papers in Psychoanalytic Anthropology (Series in Ethnicity, Medicine, and Psychoanalysis; 2), Charlottesville, Va.: University Press of Virginia, →ISBN, page 211:

They (capital T) are saying that while Saddam was not at all a good idea it was very bad that we were in the Gulf at all – latest was a bearded Canuck who did me for their TV this morning.

1991 March 18, Kingsley Amis, “To Robert Conquest”, in Zachary Leader, editor, The Letters of Kingsley Amis, London: HarperCollinsPublishers, published 2000, →ISBN, pages 1102–1103:

Succinctly stated, your story is that nameless men from a faceless organization want to kill you for reasons which you cannot fathom. You’ve done nothing. You are an innocent and blameless man. But They—capital ‘T’ They—want you dead.

1995 October, Joseph R. Garber, “Some Fine Joke”, in Vertical Run, New York, N.Y.: Bantam Books, →ISBN, page 133:

Honorific alternative letter-case form of of they, sometimes used when referring to gods or other important figures who are understood from context.


quhom

Compare quhat and quhere, variants of what and where respectively.

Procreat upon ane Concubine, or as we commonlie say, upon ane aneabil or singill woman, quhom he maries thereafter, as his lawfull wife.

1609, John Skene, transl., Regiam majestatem: the auld lawes and constitutions of Scotland, 1st edition, volume 1:

Gif ony man annalzies ony landis titulo oneroſo, to ane uther, and it happin afterwart that the famin landis be compryſit fra the buyar, for debt auchtand be the annalzier of the ſaidis landis to him be quhom thay ar compryſit, and to his aſſignay thairof, […]

1754, Sir James Balfour, compiler, Practicks, Edinburgh: Thomas and Walter Ruddimans, Of warrandice, page 328:

We confesse and acknawledge ane onlie God, to quhom onlie we must cleave, [quhom only we must serve,] quhom onlie we must wirschip, and in quhom onlie we must put our trust; […]

1561, The Confeſſione of the fayht ^([sic]) and doctrine beleued and profeſſed by the Proteſtantes […], Edinburgh: Robert Lekprewik, page 97; republished as David Laing, editor, Works of John Knox, volume 2, Wodrow Society, 1848:

(especially Scotland) Obsolete spelling of whom.


somefin'

But seriously, you may be onto somefin' wif that skull rock... I say that's where the treasure is.

2004, Intelligent Systems, translated by Nintendo of America, Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, Nintendo, GameCube, level/area: Keelhaul Key:


HIM

Her Imperial Majesty
Her Imperial Majesty#English


trenything

trenything is possible
trenything is possible#English


overfew

[…] Against thyself, thyself far overfew / To front yon multitudes of rebel scheming?


overfew

2022, Charles Williams, James I
"There were," said Sir James Melville, "overfew to comfort her."