hisself

9.9

A word people in some dialects use instead of the standard word himself

pronoun

Informal

: él mismo

He put hisself in a position where he was gonna have to do ten years in prison.

Examples

He started trying to shave hisself with Dad's razor.

This Happy Breed (1944)
Then you tell him to get hisself back out there and fix it.

Daddy and Them (2001)
You know, he picked hisself back up; put himself back together.

Battle in Seattle (2007)
The boy was off trying to find hisself some shoes, Colonel.

Glory (1989)
He set his hands in the dirt here to boost hisself out.

The Dark Half (1993)
I reckon he just took hisself down here to have a look-see at the land and the peoples on it.

Asteroid City (2023)
Well, can't you see the poor man's trying to get hisself some sleep?

Skeletons (1997)
Why don't y'all never let the child explain hisself none?

A Raisin in the Sun (1961)
For instance, a man escapes, then realizen the errors of his ways, gives hisself up voluntarily.

Brubaker (1980)
The boy was off trying to find hisself some shoes, Colonel.

Synonyms

himself

vshisself

∞ 1.0

A word used when a man does something to the same man or to stress he did it personally

is a nonstandard dialect variant used instead of the standard reflexive form

Surface Forms

hisself subject case

Morphology

hisself = his + self (transparent) = his + self

Formed from the possessive 'his' + 'self', the meaning is directly recoverable and matches the standard reflexive sense.

Etymology

Hisself comes from joining his ('belonging to him') and self ('the person'), following the pattern of words like yourself. It is a nonstandard form of himself, so people use hisself to mean 'his own self' or simply 'himself'.