theirselves

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Northumbria/ˈðɐ.sɛlz/

A form of themselves — The reflexive case of they, the third-person plural personal pronoun. The group of people, animals, or objects previously mentioned, as the object of a verb or following a preposition (also used for emphasis).

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Meanings

pronountheirselves (singular himself or hisself or herself)

singular himself · singular hisself · singular herself

  1. IrelandUKalternativedialectalAlternative form of themselves.

    Horace: "Look, Jasper! Do you supposed they disguised theirselves?"

    1961, Bill Peet, One Hundred and One Dalmatians, Walt Disney Productions
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    Or would they have it believed, that there is in their ſelves ſome ſuperior ſanctity, ſome peculiar privilege, by which theſe things are lawful to them, which are unlawful to all the world beſides?

    1776, Jeremy Bentham, “A Short Review of the Declaration”, in John Lind, An Anſwer to the Declaration of the American Congress, London: Thomas Cadell, page 121

    Was anyone hurted? Sure, they were just trailin' theirselves off the ground. Ye wud have died larfin'. There's Jimmy Hanlon was never his own man since, and I had me nose broke on me—I find it yet—and some says there was a wee girl from Tanderagee got herself killed.

    1915, Charles L Graves, Humours of Irish life, pages 241-242

Synonyms & antonyms

Origin

From their + -selves, patterned on ourselves and similar terms.

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