zirself en · PRON
Etymology
From zir + -self.
Meanings
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(gender-neutral, nonstandard, personal, pronoun, reflexive, singular, third-person) Zir; the gender-neutral object of a verb or preposition that also appears as the subject.
"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: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:
- (emphatic, gender-neutral, nonstandard, personal, pronoun, singular, third-person) 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.