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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

coself en · PRON

Etymology

From co + -self.

Meanings

  1. (nonstandard, reflexive) Gender-neutral object of a verb or preposition that also appears as the subject, grammatically equivalent to himself or herself.
    • 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):
    • Co consistently does less than cos share of the Community work. 4. Co absents coself from the Community for more than three weeks [...] 1983, Ingrid Komar, Living the Dream:
    • 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:

Relateds

other attested gender-neutral pronouns