Etymology

hes

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Today it means: The person of unspecified gender previously mentioned or implied. Full definition →

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hes · contraction1

From he's via a reduction of the apostrophe.

hes · pronoun2

A mixture of she and he. Coined by Ching Hai in 1990s.

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