hes

head

hes (third-person singular, gender-neutral, nominative case, oblique hirm, reflexive hirmself, possessive hiers, possessive hiers)

hirm (oblique)
hirmself (reflexive)
hiers (possessive)

A mixture of she and he. Coined by Ching Hai in 1990s.

The person of unspecified gender previously mentioned or implied.


fele

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


nauther

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


xyrself

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

en-pron

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

Xe injured xyrself.

Judy said: [...] What I am interested in is how does it feel for the autistic person xyrself to go through this program. I have heard many negative testimonials [...]

1995 May 23, Phil Schwarz, “Re[1]: Giant Steps”, in bit.listserv.autism (Usenet):

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

Xe accomplished it xyrself.

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


anybodies

[…] she pleased me with her account of you whom she had lately seen--dwelling upon your retrograde passage into youth, and the delight you were taking in the presence and society of some still more youthful, fair, and gay monstrum amandum, some prodigy of intellectual accomplishment, some little Circe who never turned anybodies into pigs.

1840, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, “To H. S. Boyd”, in Frederic G. Kenyon, editor, The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1 of 2), published 1898:

And it's only fathers who love anybodies; Nurse told me they always did.

When a man was as clever as John, he was anybodies equal--one saw that every day.

1910, Mrs. Humphry Ward, Fenwick's Career:

Well, Mable, Id have bet anybodies money before I went out that none of those shots had lit more than ten feet away.

1919, Edward Streeter, "Same old Bill, eh Mable!":

(nonstandard) possessive form of anybody


anythink

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

1901, Henry Lawson, Joe Wilson and His Mates:

"Lost anythink, Matey?" said he.

1911, Herbert George Wells, The New Machiavelli:

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

1913, Henry W. Nevinson, Essays in Rebellion:

Pronunciation spelling
pronunciation spelling

(UK) Pronunciation spelling of anything.


hym

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

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

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

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


nish

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

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

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

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

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

These fucking little smart arses download fucking tunes for nish.

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


y'

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

1888, Robert Louis Stevenson, The Black Arrow:

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

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

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

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


anyfink

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

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


urself

(Internet slang, text messaging) yourself


we-uns

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

“We-uns hev all been a-gittin' married round hyar lately. Whar's that purty wife o' yourn?”

1891, Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country, Nebraska, published 2005, page 16:

‘We'uns was sittin under a tree over to the cannin factory just a little while ago, eatin our dinner, when this here stranger rode up.’

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

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

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

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

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


our asses

head

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

en-pron

Our asses are always late.

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


zay

I know vat zay do.

1918, Randall Parrish, Wolves of the Sea:

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

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

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


yores

"Whut business is this here of yores?"

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

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

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

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


yees

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

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

"Where does yees get the jug?"

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

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


s.t.

Coordinate term: s.o.

(chiefly grammar and lexicography) Abbreviation of something.


all y'all's

"How all y'all's folks, Mis' Clark? How yo maw and paw? How Dan? ...

1946, Mary King O'Donnell, Those other people, page 24:

And you know what's on the tip of all y'all's tongues? Each and every one of y'all?"

2008, Matt de la Peña, Mexican whiteboy, page 97:

(chiefly Southern US, colloquial) Possessive of all y'all (standing in for all your).


all y'all

From all + y'all (itself from you + all).

Dyah dee come! Now watch 'em smile. All y'all jes stand back. Heah de one you lookin' for.

1887, Thomas Nelson Page, In ole Virginia: or, Marse Chan, and other stories, page 160:

(chiefly Southern US, redundant, pleonasm) Plural form of you.

the list of other second-person pronouns in you


noöne

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

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

However, the transcendence of 2#x5C;sqrt#x7B;2#x7D; was so difficult a problem that noöne in the audience would live to see its solution. Within a few years, [Carl Ludwig] Siegel had proven this transcendence!

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


summet

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

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

(British, dialectal, obsolete) Alternative form of summat


sbd.

(chiefly grammar and lexicography) Abbreviation of somebody.


s.o.

Coordinate term: s.t.

(chiefly grammar and lexicography) Abbreviation of someone.


yinz

tlb

(US, dialectal, especially Western Pennsylvania and Appalachia)

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


'at

What’s ’at? (meaning What is that?)

I've never seen anything like ’at.


he/she

head

she (third person singular, plural they)

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


nuttin'

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


sumet

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

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

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

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


somepoty

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

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


somepody

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

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

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

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

Say, somepody sthop dot!

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


somepin

The Lawd's keepin' me here for somepin.

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

My second husband was named Lee somepin or other.

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


whome

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

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


your's

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

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

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

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

1997 November 23, blo...@bitchho.com, “I love to suck on juicy cocks. Can I suck on your's pleeeease!!!”, in alt.sex.fetish.tongue (Usenet), retrieved 2022-06-15:

2001 March 21, evang3, “MY SUCCESSFUL E-BUSINESS CAN BE YOUR'S LOOK HOW!!! ^^”, in alt.business.misc (Usenet), retrieved 2022-06-15:

My mail gets addressed to Ron Hamilton and your's is addressed to Mr. Chicken Fucker.

2014 September 21, Mr.Smartypants Royal Order Of The DoW #4, “Why is Ron Jealous of people with an Education?”, in edm.general (Usenet), retrieved 2022-06-15:


ALCON

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

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

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

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

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

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

(military) Abbreviation of all concerned.


theeself

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

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

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

1880, Henry Woodcock, The Hero of the Humber:


thur

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

1898, Richard Jefferies, The Toilers of the Field:

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


nuthin'

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

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


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

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

Or does ne1 know where I can buy these cheap?

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

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

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

(Internet slang, text messaging) Abbreviation of anyone.


thay

Yet fynde I another sort almoste as bad as thay.

1506, Alexander Barclay, The Ship of Fools, Volume 1:

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

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

Law bless us! there was four of us on this stairkes, four as nice young men as you ever see: Mr. Bruffy's young man, Mr. Dawkinses, Mr. Blewitt's, and me--and we knew what our masters was about as well as thay did theirselfs.

1838, William Makepeace Thackeray, Memoirs of Mr. Charles J. Yellowplush:


hitself

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

en-pron

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


elsewhat

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

inh+

(obsolete) Something else; anything else.


something to write home about

nothing to write home about

antonym(s) of “something exceptional or noteworthy”


mesen

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


thems

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

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

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

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

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

2008, Pat Mattaini Mestern, Granite, page 87:

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

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

(Appalachia, colloquial) variant of those.


'is

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

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

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

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

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


everyone and his brother

everybody and his brother
everybody and his brother#English


everthang

Pronunciation spelling of everything, representing Southern US English.


allyou

'Ah, I wish I was like all you Jamaican,' Moses say, 'Allyou could live on two-three pound a week...

1979, Samuel Selvon, The lonely Londoners:

What I paying the two of allyou for if I have to hire management consultant?

(Caribbean, dialect) Plural form of you.


thyne

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

1560, Peter Whitehorne, Machiavelli, Volume I:

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

1566, William Adlington, The Golden Asse:

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

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


nuffink

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

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


nuffin

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

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


whar

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

(humorous) Deliberate misspelling of what.


such like

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

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


shee

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


us selves

head

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


the ones

I'm commitment-phobic, as you well know, 'cos there're too many ‘the ones’ running 'round out here.

2003, Betty Byers, Murder Unwired, page 46:


him/herself

herself (third person, singular, plural themselves)

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

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

third-person singular
third-person singular

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


anie

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

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

(Early Modern) Obsolete spelling of any.


yis

(Ireland, especially Dublin) Alternative form of yous


youze

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

2008, Cathi Unsworth, The Singer, page 108:


damn all

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


thissun

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


toder

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


whoes

out of whoes eies there gushed streames of teares

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


ownself

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

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

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

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

Did you paint this your ownself?

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


thers

He had bene instrumentall in promotinge the three persons above mencioned to the Kings favour, and had himselfe in truth so greate an esteeme of them, that he did very frequently upon conference togither departe from his owne inclinations and opinions, and concurred in thers; and very few men of so greate parts are upon all occasyons more councellable then he, so that he would seldome be in daunger of runninge into greate errors, if he would communicate and expose all his owne thoughts and inclinations to such a disquicition, nor is he uninclinable in his nature to such an intire communication in all things which he conceaves to be difficulte; but his fatall infirmity is, that he to often thinkes difficulte things very easy, and doth not consider possible consequences, when the proposition administers somewhat that is delighfull to his fancy, and by pursuinge wherof he imagynes he shall reape some glory to himselfe, of which he is immoderately ambitious, so that if the consultation be upon any action to be done, no man more implicitely enters into that debate, or more cheerefully resignes his owne conceptions to a joynt determination, but when it is once affirmatively resolved, besydes that he may possibly reserve some impertinent circumstance as he thinkes, the impartinge wherof would change the nature of the thinge, if his fancy suggests to him any particular which himselfe might performe in that action, upon the imagination that every body would approove it, if it were proposed to them, he chooses rather to do it, then to communicate, that he may have some signall parte to himselfe in the transaction, in which no other person can clayme a share; and by this unhappy temper, he did often involve himselfe in very unprosperous attempts.

1918, Various, Characters from 17th Century Histories and Chronicles:


he or she

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

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

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

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


zirself

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

2002, Louise, “Anyone want to introduce zirself before APC9?”, in alt.polyamory (Usenet):

I'm trying to point out that his 'help' would be seriously damaging to a person who lacks the ability to fix zirself through a sheer act of will.

2002, Lorremiddy, “Today is a great day.”, in soc.singles.moderated (Usenet):

This is the pronoun that Carter uses to describe zirself.

2007, Sherryl Vint, Bodies of tomorrow: technology, subjectivity, science fiction, page 213:

"End," zie said to zirself. Recalling the dream's authors, zie thought, At least they can still have them... Zie couldn't imagine a single thing.

2007, Colette Phair, Nightmare in Silicon: A Novel:

(reflexive pronoun) zir; the gender-neutral object of a verb or preposition that also appears as the subject

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


thi sen

(Yorkshire) Alternative form of thee sen


perself

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

Per injured perself.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


eirs

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

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


eirself

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

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

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

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

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

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


emself

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

en-pron

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


coself

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

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

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

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

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

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


heorshe

head

heorshe (third person, singular, plural they)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


thonself

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


usself

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

From Middle English. Equivalent to us + -self.


o.s.

(chiefly grammar and lexicography) Initialism of oneself.


myselves

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

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

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

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


whatshername

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

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

1839, Charles Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby:

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


somedeal

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

(obsolete or dialect) Some part; a portion, something; some.


you lot

You lot had better knock it off.

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

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

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


your guys's

tlb

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

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

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

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

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


faer

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

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

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

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

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

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


e/o

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

(text messaging) Abbreviation of each other.


zir

head

zir (third-person singular, gender-neutral, objective case, reflexive hirself)

en-pron

Blend of z (“gender-neutral (as in ze)”) + i (“him/his”) + r (“her”).

blend

gender-neutral (as in <i class="Latn mention" lang="en">ze</i>)

However, it soon became very lonely as none of Alice’s school friends could see zir anymore and they soon forgot all about zir.

2002, Lynsey Calderwood, Cracked: Recovering After Traumatic Brain Injury, Jessica Kingsley Publishers, →ISBN, page 155:

(rare, nonstandard) Gender-neutral third-person singular accusative (object) pronoun, equivalent to singular them and coordinate with him and her.


thei

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

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


anything else

Would you like anything else?

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

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

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


me, myself and I

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

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

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


everyone and their mother

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

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


everybody and their dog

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

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


whethersoever

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


somebuddy

(eye dialect) Eye dialect spelling of somebody.


d@

d@ is 4 u — that is for you

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


thissen

(colloquial, Yorkshire) Alternative form of thee sen


thats

2007, Paul Mavis, review of the 1983 film "Hundra", DVD Talk, March 25th
set about to make a spoofy fantasy adventure thats focus would be on a gorgeous, blonde, man-hating super-warrior who was subservient to no one.

So I'm writing a paper and I'm saying, "Darfur is a region of western Sudan thats government is…" My question is about the "that"– should it be "that's" (even though that means "that is") or "thats" (with no apostrophe)?

2008 September 25, jules, “That's or thats? (grammar help please!)?”, in Yahoo! Answers, archived from the original on 2011-07-01; quoted in Mark Liberman, “'That's'”, in Language Log, 2014 March 28, archived from the original on 2014-04-08:

2015, James Harbeck, The future of English includes an apostrophe-less 'thats', The Week
Let me tell you about a word thats time has come.

(West Midlands, Northern Ireland) whose, of which


anybody's

possessive form of anybody (This entry is a translation hub.)

kenen tahansa

belonging to anybody (possessive form of anybody)


'emselves

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

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


you gals

Hey you gals! How you doin'?

You gals headin' down to the beach?

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


quho

(often Scotland) Obsolete spelling of who.


her's

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

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

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

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

(now nonstandard) Alternative form of hers


smth

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

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


quhich

(often Scotland) Obsolete spelling of which.


quhat

certaine quhat he wos

(especially Scotland) Obsolete spelling of what.


(Internet slang, text messaging) someone


me fein

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


other some

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


somthing

Is not this ſomthing more then phantaſie?

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


zummet

A thawt, an if a war alive,

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

(British, dialectal, obsolete) Alternative form of summat


zummat

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

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


summut

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

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


zummut

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

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


zumat

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

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


summot

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

1773, John Byrom, Miscellaneous Poems, page 164:

And yet it may mean summot

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


she or he

head

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


she/he

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


theyself

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

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


sumthing

"Fool, you crazy or sumthing?"

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


your man

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see your, man.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

(Ireland) That man, the man in question.


her nibs

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


her'n

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


his'n

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


our'n

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


their'n

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


oonuh

Both of oonuh was so young

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

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


your'n

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

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

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


youself

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

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

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

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


yorself

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

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


(leetspeak, text messaging) Abbreviation of someone.


Yourself

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


Your

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


Yours

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


Thine

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


Thyself

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


Thou

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


Myself

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


Thee

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


You

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


whomso

whomso (the singular and plural objective case of whoso)

en-pron

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


everwho

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

Everwho did this is in mighty big trouble!

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

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


yours trulies

Humorously non-standard pluralization of yours truly.

(idiomatic, informal) we, us, or ourselves


thoo

(Orkney) Thou; singular informal form of you.


yoself

(dialect) Pronunciation spelling of yourself.


yoselves

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

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


ever'body

(dialect) Pronunciation spelling of everybody.


everbody

(archaic) Obsolete spelling of everybody.


e'rything

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

pronunciation spelling of

(colloquial, nonstandard) Alternative spelling of everything


sumbody

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


somebudy

(dialectal) Eye dialect spelling of somebody.


sombuddy

(eye dialect) Eye dialect spelling of somebody.


some body

It made me think of my springer spaniel, Effie. I hadn’t thought that much about Effie, and I suddenly missed her. They’d brought her to see me one time at the hospital, to try to cheer me up, but Effie hadn’t recognized me. To her, I was just some body lying in a weird-smelling room who didn’t even scratch her.

1998, Travis Roy with E[dward] M[cKelvy] Swift, Eleven Seconds: A Story of Tragedy, Courage, and Triumph, New York, N.Y.: Warner Books, →ISBN, page 88:

It is now clear that the death of a loved one is to be understood as a mobile internal theater, virtually unrelated to some body lying in a coffin, and that this process of leave-taking is dreadfully unruly.

2003, Arnold Weinstein, A Scream Goes Through the House: What Literature Teaches Us About Life, New York, N.Y.: Random House, →ISBN, page 316:

I looked at her lying there, so still and unmoving, her lovely face broken into pieces under the bandage. […] I was about to launch into the New Year’s Day annual Polar Bear Club Swim, a tradition clearly for lunatics, in the icy Atlantic waters of Coney Island, the freezing cold of Lake Michigan in Chicago and off the coast of Vancouver in the frigid Pacific, when suddenly I looked down and really saw her as Donna, not some body lying in a bed, designed to add to my general discomfort on earth.

2010, Diane Meier, The Season of Second Chances: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Henry Holt and Company, →ISBN, page 146:

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


som'

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


anybudy

(dialectal) Eye dialect spelling of anybody.


every body

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

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

142.5 Disposition after dissection. The remains of every body received for scientific purposes under this chapter shall be decently buried or cremated after it has been used for said purposes, and a failure to do so shall be a misdemeanor.

1947, The Department of Health, compiler, Health Laws, Opinions and Court Decisions, Des Moines, Ia.: The State of Iowa, page 34:

Nevertheless – all William’s enquiries were channeled through the presidential office – the authorities were anxious to exhume every body buried since the coup and arrange them for inspection.

1990, Alan Judd, Tango, New York, N.Y.: Summit Books, →ISBN, page 291:

“He wants to donate his body to science. Apparently they only take skinny bodies…something about it being hard to store human fat. It’s odd. I would have thought every body was of some use or interest to science.”

2017, Sulari Gentill, Crossing the Lines, Scottsdale, Ariz.: Poisoned Pen Press, →ISBN, page 153:

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


yo'selves

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

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


yur

Then, in a staggering display of empathy for the deceased lacking, this friend segues to the narcissist nub of the matter: "Omg wat if yu get arrested b4 yur bdai."

2009 March 10, Rosie DiManno, “Murder reduced to infantile online postings”, in Toronto Star:


somesing

You want ketchup or somesing?


everytang

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


evrythin

(archaic) Alternative spelling of everything


everytin'

Pronunciation spelling of everything, representing Caribbean English.

pronunciation spelling of

(colloquial) Alternative spelling of everything


e'rythang

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


whatevuh

(nonstandard) Alternative spelling of whatever


overmany

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

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

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

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


anypony

From any + pony, by analogy with anybody.

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

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

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

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

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

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


everypony

From every + pony, by analogy with everybody.

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

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

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

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

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

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

(My Little Pony fandom slang) Everybody.


yourselfs

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

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

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


limpeh

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

bor

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

1999 October 29, Ken Tan, sg.marketplace:

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

1999 November 23, Sophus Lefouque, sg.marketplace:

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

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

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

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

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

2011 November 7, LIFT: Limpeh Is Foreign Talent:

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

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

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

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

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


everycunt

From every + cunt, after Scots everycunt.

I mean everycunt's carrying blades these days.

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

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

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

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


wt

Sure, we may use cellphones and e-mail hundreds of times a week, but we say very little. […] Most of our talk, even in privileged IM circles, is no deeper than the words we exchange with the pizza guy. […] U C wt I mn?

2008 January–February, Chris Rodell, “Small talk, big results”, in Men's Health, volume 23, number 1, →ISSN, page 80:

(Internet slang, text messaging) Abbreviation of what.


Your Highnessness

(humorous, rare) Synonym of Your Highness


quhatsoever

(especially Scotland) Obsolete spelling of whatsoever.


every one

There were three hamburgers and he ate every one [of them].

There were three patients and she helped every one [of them].

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

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

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


Your Rottenness

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

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

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

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

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


Your Dukeness

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

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

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

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


Your Worshipfulness

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

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

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

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


Hers

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


Herself

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

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

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


Her

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


Who

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

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

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


She

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


Her's

(now nonstandard) Alternative form of Hers


Your Excellency

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Your Excellency (plural Your Excellencies)

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


hersen

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


whomst

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


His Excellency

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


Her Excellency

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


Her Imperial Majesty

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


His Royal Majesty

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


Her Royal Majesty

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


Your Imperial Majesty

Your Imperial Majesty (plural Your Imperial Majesties)

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


Your Royal Highness

Your Royal Highness (plural Your Royal Highnesses)

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


your Honors

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


TRH

HOUSEHOLD OF TRH THE DUKE AND DUCHESS OF YORK

1993, Vacher’s Parliamentary Companion, page 21:

The new building was opened finally by TRH the Prince and Princess of Wales, the future King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra in 1890.

2018, Sarah Quail, Struggle and Suffrage in Portsmouth: Women's Lives and the Fight for Equality, Pen & Sword History, →ISBN:

In the wake of the 1992 publication of Diana: Her True Story by Andrew Morton, TRH The Prince and Princess of Wales are now living separately.

2021, Sophie Green, Thursdays at Orange Blossom House, Sphere, →ISBN:

Their Royal Highnesses
Their Royal Highnesses#English


His Highness

(formal) A title of respect for male royals.

Hans Højhed

a title of respect when mentioning a male royal


Her Highness

(formal) A title of respect for female royals.

Hendes Højhed

a title of respect when mentioning a female royal


'ee

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


wunna

From Igbo únù. Compare Jamaican Creole unnu.

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


you'uns

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


they-uns

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


yoursen

If yo doan't want to goa, suit yorsen


utch

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


elsewho

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

For quotations using this term, see Citations:elsewho.

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


zirs

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

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

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


elsewhom

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

For quotations using this term, see Citations:elsewhom.


my man

my man (third-person singular, masculine, nominative or objective case)

en-pronoun

My man thought it was a good idea.


somefink

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

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


yo'll

(slang, British, West Country) Plural form of you.


thattun

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


who so

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


this'n

(slang, West Country, US regional) this one.


that'n

(slang, West Country, US regional) that one.


my learned friend

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


sumn

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


both of yours

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

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

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

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

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

mindkettőtöké

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


both of ours

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

1981, Meredith Sue Willis, Higher Ground:

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

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

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

mindkettőnké

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


the devil a one

making great chear with a good deal of vineger, the devil a one of them did forbear from his victuals, it was a triumphant and incomparable spectacle to see how they ravened and devoured.

1653, Thomas Urquhart, transl., The First Book of the Works of Mr. Francis Rabelais, London: Richard Baddeley, Book 2, Chapter 26, p. 168-169:

[…] she wou’d have corrupted all their Wives; the Devil a one wou’d have made her own Butter, after being acquainted with her.

1709, Susanna Centlivre, The Man’s Bewitch’d, London: Bernard Lintott, act V, page 66:

(He helps them on with the clothes.) There, the devil a one of them can know you now— […] you’re so nicely disguised,

1790, John O’Keeffe, The Highland Reel, Dublin, act 2, page 34:

Whole volleys of muskets were level’d at him,
But the devil a one ever graz’d e’en a limb,

c. 1813, anonymous author, “Perry’s Victory”, in Robert W. Neeser, editor, American Naval Songs and Ballads, New Haven: Yale University Press, published 1938, page 187:

1912, George A. Birmingham, Priscilla’s Spies, New York: Hodder and Stoughton, G.H. Doran, Chapter 14, pp. 183-184,
Jimmy says it’s hard to tell what she’d be after. He did think at the first go off that it might be cockles; but it’s not, for he took her to Carribee strand, where there’s plenty of them, and the devil a one she’d pick up.

(now regional, dated, idiomatic, slang) Not a single one, none (of a number of people or things).

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

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

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

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


otherwhat

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


xey

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

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

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


jack-all

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

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

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

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


you'ins

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

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


youins

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

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

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

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


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:


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:


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)


Their Majesties

And we do hereby Recognize and Acknowledge, That Their Majeſties William and Mary, are, and as of Right they ought to be by the Laws of the Realm of England, our Leige Lord and Lady, King and Queen of England, France and Ireland, and the Dominions thereunto belonging, &c.

1719, Acts of Assembly passed in the Province of New York from 1691 to 1718, page 1:

He assisted at the coronation of Their Majesties William and Mary; and sailed with the king, as captain of the guards, to Ireland, where he proved his courage at the battle of the Boyne.

1806, A Biographical History of England, from the Revolution to the End of George I's Reign, page 29:

[…]; by appointment of Their Majesties, William and Mary, February 6, 1690, the founder and trustee of William and Mary College; and by appointment of His Majesty William III, Escheator-General for the south side of the James River.

1910, Ancestral Records and Portraits, page 751:

The choir sings Agnus Dei, during which Their Majesties receive Holy Communion

2023 May 6, “Coronation order of service in full”, in BBC, archived from the original on 2023-05-06:


eve'ything

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

(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

Coordinate term: youseselves

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:


your guys'

tlb

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

2004, Napoleon Dynamite
Hey can I use your guys' phone for a sec?


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 (lyrics and music), “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:


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: