xyrself
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- Rhymes: -ɛlf
Pronoun edit
xyrself (the third person singular, gender-neutral, personal pronoun, the reflexive form of xe, feminine herself, masculine himself, neuter itself, plural themselves)
- (reflexive, rare, nonstandard) xyr; the gender-neutral object of a verb or preposition that also appears as the subject
- Xe injured xyrself.
- 1995 May 23, Phil Schwarz, “Re[1]: Giant Steps”, in bit.listserv.autism (Usenet):
- 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 [...]
- (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
- Xe accomplished it xyrself.