heorshe

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A form of he — A person who identifies as male, or animal already known or implied.

Scrabble 13

Meanings

pronounheorshe (third person, singular, plural they)

plural they

  1. Internetalternativenonstandardsingularthird personuncommonAlternative form of he or she: they (singular); used as a gender-neutral reference to the third person singular.

    Perhaps heorshe started out by investigating the scientific validity of all those house remedies and more esoteric healing methods which fall into the stereotypical Verbena paradigm.

    1998 May 20, CML, “Mages playing out of Paradigm”, in rec.games.frp.storyteller (Usenet)
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    I heard ghastly rumors about some faculty actually destroying a student's video because heorshe didn't feel it was art. . . even if a rumor it sounds like a pretty terrible environment for expression.

    1994 May 4, Mary Flanagan, “Savannah College of Art and Design”, in alt.artcom (Usenet)

    Why doesn’t Argonut come out of the closet (where heorshe is having an affair with hisorher Filter Queen) and identify himorherself? It would be more fun to persecute himorher if we actually knew who heorshe is. ;-)

    1996 September 16, Jon LeBlanc, “Argonut's special game report. (Argos/Sask)”, in rec.sport.football.canadian (Usenet)

Origin

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APA

heorshe. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/heorshe

MLA

“heorshe.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/heorshe. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “heorshe,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/heorshe.

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