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.


ya girl

Pronunciation spelling
pronunciation spelling


T.R.H.

T.R.H. the Prince and Princess of Wales remain at Marlborough House till Saturday next.

The complete Households of Their Majestics and of T.R.H. The Prince and Princess of Wales have been given above, although many of the names are repeated elsewhere.

1903, John Edward Courtenay Bodley, By His Majesty’s Gracious Command, the Coronation of Edward the Seventh: A Chapter of European and Imperial History, page 401:

This building was decorated and illuminated on the occasion of the visit of T.R.H. the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York.

1903, Sessional Papers of the Dominion of Canada, page 25:


T. R. H.

The STAR HOTEL has been honoured by the visits of the following Members of the English Royal Family:—[…]1847. July . { T. R. H. the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, with their Family and Suite.

1855, “Murray’s Handbook Advertiser, 1855”, in A Handbook for Travellers in Spain, London: John Murray, page 14:

Landing of T. R. H. The Duke and Duchess of York at the King’s Wharf, Quebec

1903, Joseph Pope, The Tour of Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York Through the Dominion of Canada in the Year 1901:

Read letter from the Secretary, Municipal Council, Kandy, remitting a sum of Rs. 1,126·25, being amount paid by Government for expenses incurred in connection with the unveiling ceremony of the Ceylon Contingent Memorial during the visit of T. R. H. the Duke and Duchess of Connaught.

1908, Proceedings of the Planters’ Association of Ceylon, page 13:


Their Royal Highnesses

No. 1.—Members of the Royal Family of Great Britain and Ireland, and Relatives of the Royal Family. / Their Royal Highnesses The Prince and Princess of Wales. / Their Royal Highnesses Prince Edward and Prince Albert of Wales.

At Admiralty House Her Royal Highness planted a Blue Mountain Cypress Pine (Callitris Muelleri, Benth.) between the two trees planted by Their Royal Highnesses Prince Edward and Prince George on their visit to Australia as midshipmen of H.M.S. “Bacchante” in 1881.

1903, Votes & Proceedings, New South Wales, Parliament, Legislative Council, page 4:

THEIR Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales arrived in Benares at nine o’clock on Sunday morning, February 18th, 1906.

1906, The Church Missionary Intelligencer, page 284:

Her Royal Highness
Her Royal Highness#English

His Royal Highness
His Royal Highness#English

plural of Her Royal Highness and His Royal Highness


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 (lyrics and music), “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:


smtn

(text messaging) Informal form of something.


allthing

From Middle English althing; equivalent to all + thing.


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

(nonstandard, dialectal) Pronunciation spelling of something.


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):


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 their cousin

everybody and his brother
everybody and his brother#English


everybody and his brother

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

boldog-boldogtalan

everyone (hyperbolically), a large number of people


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:


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:

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:

(leetspeak, text messaging) Abbreviation of everyone.


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:

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.


your boy

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

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


anyshit

I don't have to prove anyshit in this world. I am the best, that's it.

1993 August 19, Michele Dall'Agata, “Elizabeth Lunau”, in alt.flame (Usenet), retrieved 2022-08-21:

You guys are pretty funny...
I guess you guys dont know ANYSHIT about Radiactive^([sic]) Rendering.

2001 November 3, IllUSTRATOR, “誰知道這張3D怎麼弄出來的啊 ?”, in tw.bbs.comp.graphics (Usenet), retrieved 2022-08-21:

Good god, not another "George Soros is taking over America through John Kerry" twit. I thought it was a joke when I got that e-mail. Apparently some people believe anyshit they are fed.

2004 August 22, Vic Romano, “ot Not So Swift Boat Veterans - wrp”, in alt.sports.basketball.nba.la-lakers (Usenet), retrieved 2022-08-21:


youse's

This drink’s mine; Bill and Joe, those drinks are youse’s.

(US) Possessive of youse (standing in for yours).


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:

But however many the families number, their’s is the republic, the power and the glory, and for ever and ever they mean to keep it.

1962, Nicholas Wollaston, “El Salvador”, in Red Rumba: A Journey through the Caribbean and Central America, London: Hodder & Stoughton, →OCLC, page 107:


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.


lil bro

head

lil bro (third-person singular, masculine, nominative or objective case)

en-pron

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-lil bro.wav

lil bro is hard asf

2023 February 5, Crim (@Crimisum), Twitter:

Lil bro ain’t to be messed with

2023 February 3, ZERO CHILL FIGHTS 🥊 (@zerochillfights), Twitter:

Lil bro’s Fortnite accent goes crazy

2023 February 2, OJSpaceMan (@SpacemanOj), Twitter:

(African-American Vernacular, slang) diminutive of bro: he, especially in regard to someone smaller or younger.


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:


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 one

I should never deserve her confidence again, after forcing from her a confession of what is meant at present to be unacknowledged to any one. I know Marianne’s heart: I know that she dearly loves me, and that I shall not be the last to whom the affair is made known, when circumstances make the revealment of it eligible. I would not attempt to force the confidence of any one; of a child much less; because a sense of duty would prevent the denial which her wishes might direct.

1811, [Jane Austen], chapter XVI, in Sense and Sensibility […], volume I, London: […] C[harles] Roworth, […], and published by T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 198:

[…]—if any one, be he who he may, attempt to alter the faith once for all delivered, let him be accursed.

1885, Charles Abel Heurtley, transl., The Commonitory of Vincent of Lérins, Chapter 8:

There is a very considerable series of observations—non-instrumental, unsystematic, irregular, "haphazard" if you will—which any one with ordinary intelligence and with a real interest in weather conditions may undertake.

1912, Robert DeC. Ward, “The Value of Non-Instrumental Weather Observations”, in Popular Science Monthly, p. 129:

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.


any thing

1600, translation attributed to Thomas Nashe, The Hospitall of Incurable Fooles by Tomaso Garzoni, London: Edward Blount, Discourse 6, pp. 32-33,
The intemperature of the braine is the cause of al this (as phisitions affirme) which maketh all the officiall, and functiue parts full of heauines and indisposition, and so through this hebetude (to vse their terme) vnapt to keepe in minde any thing.

I am not sensible of having done any thing wrong in walking over Mrs. Smith’s grounds, or in seeing her house.

1811, [Jane Austen], chapter XIII, in Sense and Sensibility […], volume I, London: […] C[harles] Roworth, […], and published by T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 161:

The driver […] neither knew any thing, said any thing, or did any thing but watch a dozen equine ears, and keep six reins taut in his hands, and coax the off wheel[-]horse with the belly of his whip-lash every two minutes, invariably accompanying the stroke with a tremendous solitary cluck.

1869 September, E. P. Willard, “A Night and a Day on the Sierra Nevada”, in The Western Monthly, volume II, number 9, Chicago, Ill.: Reed, Browne & Co., publishers, No. 18 Tribune Building, →OCLC, page 179, column 2:

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.


any body

“I ſhall be quite au deſeſpoir if I derange any body.”

1782, [Frances Burney], “A Man of Business”, in Cecilia, or Memoirs of an Heiress. […], volume III, London: […] T[homas] Payne and Son […], and T[homas] Cadell […], →OCLC, book V, page 154:

As such, however, they were treated by her with quiet civility; and by her husband with as much kindness as he could feel towards any body beyond himself, his wife, and their child.

1811, [Jane Austen], chapter II, in Sense and Sensibility […], volume I, London: […] C[harles] Roworth, […], and published by T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 13:

Well, I must say, it is a comfort to have any body like you about one, Helen, for Georgiana […] is really over head and ears in love with that sailor […]

1842, [anonymous collaborator of Letitia Elizabeth Landon], chapter LXII, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, pages 164–165:

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.


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”:


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.


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.


𐑲

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


𐑣𐑦𐑥𐑕𐑧𐑤𐑓

head

𐑣𐑦𐑥𐑕𐑧𐑤𐑓 (hɪmsɛlf)


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.


xemself

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

en-pron

herself (feminine)
himself (masculine)
itself (neuter)
themselves (plural)

The soft blue sky had the feel of a good omen. In Xir old age, the god moved slower every year; lingering in the shallows long after the last fish had been swallowed up by nets. Sometimes Xe stood still for days, in sight of the shore, as if Xe had not quite decided whether to beach Xemself for good. Let Xem only survive long enough to spawn a new god! Else Xir helpless people would be godless ans stranded in the haunted dryland where the dead cities slept. Where less kindly deities roamed.

2023, Aimee Ogden, “A Half-Remembered World”, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, vol. 145, no. 1-2, whole no. 768 (July/August 2023), pages 146-202

(reflexive pronoun, rare, nonstandard) Xe; reflexive form of xe


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”)


Jack and shit

Alternative form of jack shit. To emphasize the nothing aspect, "and" is sometimes added. Though its usage is rare; see also Army of darkness


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.

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


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.


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+

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:

There is no stamen in his wisdom. It is all head and no body—like the pictures of the goddess Laverna—or at least all head and shoulders, like a codfish.

1841 March, Edgar A[llan] Poe, “The Murders in the Rue Morgue”, in George R[ex] Graham, Rufus W[ilmot] Griswold, editors, Graham’s Lady’s and Gentleman’s Magazine. […], volume XVIII, number 4, Philadelphia, Pa.: George R. Graham, published April 1841, →OCLC, page 179, column 1:

He is, after all, having no body left to speak of and confined indoors, now all brain, a manipulator, an outsmarter. His paralysis requires Bernard’s virility; […]

2003, Jack Shadoian, “Toward the 21st Century: Frenzies and Despairs”, in Dreams & Dead Ends: The American Gangster Film, 2nd edition, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, Inc., →ISBN, page 301:

Hud had been sheriff at the time of Angela’s disappearance. At first, it was believed that the baby had been kidnapped. But no ransom demand was ever made and no body was ever found.

2003, B.J. Daniels [pseudonym; Barbara Johnson Heinlein], Mountain Sheriff (Harlequin Intrigue, 744; Cascades Concealed, 1), Don Mills, Ont.: Harlequin Enterprises, →ISBN, page 49:

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see no, body.


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)

en-pron

(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

head

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.


his/her

The gender-neutral possessive pronoun for he/she.


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.

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see something, like, that.


Their Imperial Majesties

His Imperial Majesty
His Imperial Majesty#English

Her Imperial Majesty
Her Imperial Majesty#English

(formal) plural of His Imperial Majesty and Her Imperial Majesty


Their Excellencies

plural of Her Excellency and His Excellency


Their Imperial Highnesses

Her Imperial Highness
Her Imperial Highness#English

His Imperial Highness
His Imperial Highness#English

plural of Her Imperial Highness and His Imperial Highness


Her Imperial Highness

(formal) A title of respect for empresses.


His Imperial Highness

(formal) A title of respect for male emperors.


urselves

head

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

“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:

(Internet slang, text messaging) Abbreviation of whatever.


Whom

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


wgat

Due to the proximity of the h key to the g key on QWERTY keyboards standard in English-speaking countries.

(humorous) Deliberate misspelling of what.


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