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hisself

/ˈhɪz.sɛlf/

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Northumbria/ˈiːz.sɛl/

hisself pronoun: himself.

Pronoun

hisself (plural theirselves)

  1. (dialectal, informal) Himself.
    • Among those who seemed disposed to join in this opinion was the Jehu of the Warwickshire coach, who expressed his conviction to our hero, that "he wos a young gent as had much himproved hisself since he tooled him up to the 'Varsity with his guvnor."1853, Cuthbert Bede [pseudonym; Edward Bradley], “Mr. Verdant Green terminates his existence as an Oxford Freshman”, in The Adventures of Mr. Verdant Green, an Oxford Freshman, London: Nathaniel...
    • Then when he had finally got through he sat down and luk'd as tho' he hisself would die of grief if they brought in a verdict of guilty.1897, The Cosmopolitan, volume 22, page 564

hisself meaning in Bengali

hisself in Bengali

সে নিজে

Examples of hisself in a sentence

  • I sure hope he don't get hisself hurt one of these days, running his mouth thataway.1953, James Baldwin, “The Seventh Day”, in Go Tell It on the Mountain (Penguin Classics), London: Penguin Books, published 2001, →ISBN:
  • Last week he swore to me that he was spending his nights in New Orleans manwhoring hisself.[…]’2020, Eoin Colfer, Highfire, Hachette, →ISBN:

Forms of hisself

pluraltheirselves

Origin of hisself

From Middle English his-self, his self, his-selfe, his-selven, his selfen; equivalent to his + -self.

Words formed from hisself

Words that rhyme with hisself

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Questions about hisself

What does hisself mean?
Hisself means himself.
What is hisself in Bengali?
Hisself in Bengali is সে নিজে. See Hisself meaning in Bengali.
How do you use hisself in a sentence?
I sure hope he don't get hisself hurt one of these days, running his mouth thataway.
What part of speech is hisself?
Hisself is a pronoun.
How do you pronounce hisself?
Hisself is pronounced /ˈhɪz.sɛlf/.

Words near hisself in the dictionary

  1. hiss
  2. hiss-and-tell
  3. hissable
  4. Hissarlik
  5. hissed
  6. hisself
  7. hissen
  8. hisser
  9. hissers
  10. hisses
  11. hisseth

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hisself (page history and authors); hisself (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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