coself
coself pronoun: gender-neutral object of a verb or preposition that also appears as the subject, grammatically equivalent to himself or herself.
Pronoun
coself
- Gender-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 Dream
- 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 74
Origin of coself
From co + -self.
Words that rhyme with coself
38 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- yourself
- atself
- Godself
- Guelph
- hirself
- it self
- m'self
- themself
- xyrself
- zirself
- -self
- Belf
- Chelf
- eirself
- emself
- Guelf
- Helf
- hisself
- hitself
- ittself
- know thyself
- meself
- off-the-shelf
- one's self
- oneself
- perself
- Relph
- theeself
- theirself
- theyself
- thonself
- thyself
- xemself
- y'allself
- yerself
- yo'self
- yoself
- youself
Questions about coself
- What does coself mean?
- Coself means gender-neutral object of a verb or preposition that also appears as the subject, grammatically equivalent to himself or herself.
- What part of speech is coself?
- Coself is a pronoun.
Words near coself in the dictionary
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