Meanings
- nonstandardreflexiveGender-neutral object of a verb or preposition that also appears as the subject, grammatically equivalent to himself or herself.
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 Dream2 more examples
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 74A 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)
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Cite this entry
coself. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/coself
“coself.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/coself. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “coself,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/coself.
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