coself

English

Etymology

From co +‎ -self.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɛlf

Pronoun

coself

1. (reflexive, nonstandard) Gender-neutral object of a verb or preposition that also appears as the subject, grammatically equivalent to himself or herself.
   • 1983, Ingrid Komar, Living the Dream:

     Co consistently does less than cos share of the Community work. 4. Co absents coself from the Community for more than three weeks [...]

   • 1996, Brett Beemyn, Mickey Elianon, Queer studies: a lesbian, gay, bisexual, & transgender anthology, page 74:

     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 [...]

   • 2004 April 1, Pieira dos Lobos, “Fern's Story two”, in alt.magick.serious (Usenet):

     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.

See also

• other attested gender-neutral pronouns

Anagrams

• fo'c's'le, fo'c'sle, foc's'le, focsle