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Kir vs Hir - What's the difference?

kir | hir |

As a noun kir

is a cocktail made with a measure of crème de cassis topped up with white wine.

As a pronoun hir is

them singular. Gender-neutral third-person singular object pronoun, coordinate with {{term|him and {{term|her}}.}.

As an adjective hir is

belonging to hir, their singular. Gender-neutral third-person singular possessive adjective, coordinate with {{term|his and {{term|her}}.}.

kir

English

(wikipedia kir)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A cocktail made with a measure of topped up with white wine.
  • Derived terms

    * kir royal

    Anagrams

    * ----

    hir

    English

    Pronoun

  • (neologism) them (singular).
  • * {{quote-book
  • , year = 1988 , title = From a Changeling Star , first = Jeffrey , last = Carver , publisher = Bantam Books , location = New York , isbn = 0-553-27639-5 , ol = 7824150M , page = 232 , passage = But once the disorientation had passed, hir' forced hirself back to full consciousness--and worked quickly to establish ' hir position, and Ruskin's. }}
  • * {{quote-book
  • , year = 1996 , month = June , title = Nearly Roadkill: an Infobahn erotic adventure , first = Caitlin , last = Sullivan , coauthors = , publisher = Serpent's Tail , location = New York , isbn = 978-1852424183 , id = , lccn = 95072971 , ol = 820831M , page = 10 , url = http://books.google.com/books?id=QV5bAAAAMAAJ , passage = I don't know what Scratch looks like in the real world, I met hir online. }}
  • * {{quote-book
  • , date = 1997-12-18 , title = My Gender Workbook: How to Become a Real Man, a Real Woman, the Real You, or Something Else Entirely , first = Kate , last = Bornstein , authorlink = Kate Bornstein , publisher = Routledge , location = London, New York , isbn = 978-0415916738 , id = , lccn = 98134184 , ol = 7495768M , page = 130 , url = http://books.google.com/books?id=NjH32xMTu7kC&pg=PA130 , passage = Words like "freak" became attached to name, and I don't believe "brave" was ever a word the media associated with hir . }}
  • * {{quote-book
  • , date = 2000-08-29 , title = Renaissance , series = Star Trek New Frontier: Excalibur
  • 10
  • , first = Peter , last = David , authorlink = Peter David , publisher = Simon & Schuster , isbn = 978-0671042394 , lccn = 2002555412 , ol = 3665551M , page = 137 , url = http://books.google.com/books?id=oSvCkiIzTOEC , passage = T'Pau leveled a gaze at hir . "You are male and female ... and neither. 'It' is the proper word. We have no use for semantic games on Vulcan." }}

    Synonyms

    * (singular) them * (neologism) em, per

    Hyponyms

    * him, her

    Derived terms

    * (neologism) hirself

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (neologism) Belonging]] to , their (singular).
  • * {{quote-book
  • , year = 1988 , title = From a Changeling Star , first = Jeffrey , last = Carver , publisher = Bantam Books , location = New York , isbn = 0-553-27639-5 , ol = 7824150M , page = 232 , passage = But once the disorientation had passed, hir forced hirself back to full consciousness--and worked quickly to establish hir position, and Ruskin's. }}
  • * {{quote-book
  • , year = 1996 , month = June , title = Nearly Roadkill: an Infobahn erotic adventure , first = Caitlin , last = Sullivan , coauthors = , publisher = Serpent's Tail , location = New York , isbn = 9781852424183 , id = , lccn = 95072971 , ol = 820831M , page = 13 , pageurl = http://books.google.com/books?id=QV5bAAAAMAAJ , passage = It is here that Scratch has found hirself, bored out of hir mind but unable to sleep. }}
  • * {{quote-book
  • , year = 2002 , title = The Words That Took Us There: Ethnography in a Virtual Reality , first = Frank , last = Schaap , location = Amsterdam , publisher = Aksant Academic Publishers , page = 32 , isbn = 9055891991 , ol = 17062341M , passage = The player playing hir' character in a MUD (usually) tries to portray a credible, convincing person within the theme of that world, using the tools that MUD provides, '''hir''' imagination, and ' hir social and communicative skills. , pageurl = http://books.google.com/books?id=a72ATDOTez8C&pg=PA32 }}
  • * {{quote-book
  • , year = 2003 , title = Slave Trade , series = Slave Trade Trilogy
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  • , first = Susan , last = Wright , publisher = Pocket Books , isbn = 0743466853 , ol = 3283799M , page = 17 , passage = The garment covered hir' dual genitals, but ' hir slightly rounded breasts and smooth shoulders were revealed. , pageurl = http://books.google.com/books?id=5vJAfJbkS-MC&pg=PA17 }}
  • * {{quote-book
  • , date = 2011-03-29 , first = Jody , last = Norton , chapter = Transchildren and the Discipline of Children's Literature , title = Over the Rainbow: Queer Children's and Young Adult Literature , editors = Kenneth B. Kidd and Michelle Ann Abate , publisher = University of Michigan , page = 305 , isbn = 9780472071463 , id = , passage = "It's a scientific matter," Ludo announces, explaining hir' very out transgender behavior (an ongoing source of embarrassment to '''hir''' would-be upwardly mobile parents) as the result of ' hir other X chromosome's having accidentally fallen into the trash on its way down from heaven. , pageurl = http://books.google.com/books?id=fsWV-TAoJXEC&pg=PA305 }}
  • * {{quote-book
  • , date = 2011-05-19 , title = The Other Genders: Androgyne, Genderqueer, Non-Binary Gender Variant , first = Ken , last = Wickham , publisher = CreateSpace , isbn = 9781461136620 , page = 7 , passage = Sie may feel that hir' actual identity of ' hir gender is supposed to be both/neither male or female, outside of gender, third gender, beyond gender, absence of gender, mixing gender, changing gender, or all genders. , url = http://books.google.com/books?id=zWmWZwEACAAJ }}

    Synonyms

    * (singular) their * (neologism) eir

    Hyponyms

    * his, her

    Derived terms

    * (neologism) hirs

    Usage notes

    A declension shared by several gender-neutral pronoun schema. Subjective forms associated with hir include , (sie), (shi), and (ze). For additional considerations regarding use among members of the genderqueer community, see usage notes for (ze).

    See also

    * other gender-neutral pronouns English third person pronouns ----