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sie | hirself |

As pronouns the difference between sie and hirself

is that sie is (neologism) while hirself is (neologism|reflexive) hir, themself;.

As a verb sie

is to sink; fall; drop.

As a noun sie

is a drop.

sie

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) .

Alternative forms

* (l) * (l), (l) (Scotland)

Verb

  • To sink; fall; drop.
  • To fall, as in a swoon; faint.
  • (dialectal) To drop, as water; trickle.
  • To sift.
  • (dialectal) To strain, as milk; filter.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A drop.
    • Related terms
    * (l)

    Etymology 2

    Alternative forms

    * (l)

    Pronoun

  • (neologism)
  • * 1993 September 24, Alex Martelli, "punishment vs ethics (was Re: Discipline my daughters)", in alt.sex.bondage, Usenet :
    • If the child is about the intellectual equal of the parent, sie will eventually start holding hir own in discussions,
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year = 2010 , date = September 16 , title = Amaranth and Ash , author = Jessica Freely , publisher = Lightning Source , location = La Vergne , isbn = 9781461136620 , page = 101 , passage = "You must be Ash," sie said, hir voice a shade deeper than Amaranth's. , url = http://books.google.com/books?id=WpHMcQAACAAJ }}
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year = 2011 , date = May 19 , title = The Other Genders: Androgyne, Genderqueer, Non-Binary Gender Variant , author = Ken 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 }}
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year = 2011 , date = August 16 , title = Disability Culture and Community Performance: Find a Strange and Twisted Shape , author = Petra Kuppers , publisher = Palgrave Macmillan , location = New York , isbn = 9780230298279 , id = , lccn = 2011012058 , page = 18 , passage = When I asked hir about hir preferred self-identification in this scene, sie' offered me this language, '' sie sharply performs the hotness of teasing all the audience from the edge-space of androgyny.' , url = http://books.google.com/books?id=jAP1tgAACAAJ }}
    Synonyms
    * (gender-neutral) he or she, * (gender-neutral) (singular) they * (gender-neutral) (neologism) e, ey, shi, ze, per

    Anagrams

    *

    See also

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

    hirself

    English

    Pronoun

  • (neologism, reflexive) hir, themself;
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year = 1996 , month = June , title = Nearly Roadkill: an Infobahn erotic adventure , first = Catilin , last = Sullivan , coauthor = , publisher = Serpent's Tail , location = New York , isbn = 9781852424183 , id = , lccn = 95072971 , ol = 820831M , page = 13 , url = 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 = 2000 , title = Renaissance , series = Star Trek New Frontier: Excalibur
  • 2
    • , first = Peter , last = David , authorlink = Peter David , publisher = Simon & Schuster , isbn = 0743422260 , ol = 3665551M , page = 229 , passage = Hir]] nostrils flared, and [[s/he stopped where s/he was, balancing hirself' on hir toes without thought, as if poising ' hirself to make some sort of attack on whoever was there. , pageurl = http://books.google.com/books?id=oSvCkiIzTOEC&pg=PA229 }}
  • * {{quote-book
    • , date = 2001-06-09 , title = Your Brain is God , first = Timothy , last = Leary , chapter = 8 , publisher = Ronin Publishing , location = Oakland , isbn = 9781579510527 , id = , lccn = 2001118555 , passage = The working person discovered that hir own body belonged, not to the state or to the moralist or to the authoritarian doctor, but to hirself . , url = http://books.google.com/books?id=_DgmATBfmdQC&pg=PT61 }}
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year = 2009 , author = Pope Gus Rasputin Nishnabotna Sni-A-Bar , title = The Nuclear Platypus Biscuit Bible: A Spiritual Guide for the Disciples of Biscuitism , chapter = Biscuitus , page = 16 , isbn = 9780578026633 , lccn = 2008900551 , passage = Alas, then remembered S/He had created Hirself to be omnisciently all-knowing and all-seeing, so there were no possibilities S/He didn't already know. , pageurl = http://books.google.com/books?id=Z0Gw5II-F74C&pg=PA16 }}
  • * {{quote-book
    • , date = 2010-10-12 , title = The Girl Must Die: A Monster Girl Memoir , first = Erica , last = Lopez , others = Hicken, Jeffrey , publisher = Monster Girl Media , location = San Francisco , isbn = 978-0984401406 , lccn = 21010902427 , page = 143 , passage = Ze changed hir name to one of those New Testament names, and re-fashioned hirself into a soft, puffy, half-finished hermaphrodite nicknamed, The Pop n' Fresh Doe. }}
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year = 2011 , 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 = Kidd, Kenneth B.; Abate, Michelle Ann , publisher = University of Michigan , page = 306 , isbn = 9780472071463 , id = , passage = A harrowing series of violent and transphobic confrontations (including some with hir parents) drives Ludo to attempt to kill hirself by going to sleep in a freezer. , pageurl = http://books.google.com/books?id=fsWV-TAoJXEC&pg=PA306 }}
  • (neologism, emphatic) sie; .
  • * {{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 = 9780415916738 , id = , lccn = 98134184 , ol = 7495768M , page = 164 , url = http://books.google.com/books?id=NjH32xMTu7kC&pg=PA164 , passage = The trouble starts when gender (identity) ceases to be a reference point for connecting with a living growing person and is substituted for the person hirself . }}
  • * {{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 = 90 , isbn = 9055891991 , ol = 17062341M , passage = OOC talk and actions are taken to represent the player hirself and help other players to form an image, however tentative it may be, of that player. , pageurl = http://books.google.com/books?id=a72ATDOTez8C&pg=PA90 }}
  • * {{quote-book
    • , date = 2003-04-01 , title = Slave Trade , series = Slave Trade Trilogy
  • 1
    • , first = Susan , last = Wright , publisher = Pocket Books , isbn = 9780743466851 , ol = 3283799M , page = 97 , passage = Ash hadn't experienced much of that hirself , but assumed it could happen. , pageurl = http://books.google.com/books?id=5vJAfJbkS-MC&pg=PA97 }}

    Synonyms

    * themself * (neologism) emself, perself

    Hyponyms

    * himself, herself

    Usage notes

    See usage notes for (hir).

    See also

    * other gender-neutral pronouns English third person pronouns