different between yerself vs herself

English

Pronoun

yerself

1. (nonstandard or dialectal) Alternative form of yourself

Related terms

• yer
• yerselves

English

Alternative forms

• Herself (honorific)

Etymology

From Middle English. Equivalent to her +? -self.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /h???s?lf/, /?s?lf/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /h??s?lf/, /?s?lf/
• Rhymes: -?lf
• Hyphenation: her?self

Pronoun

herself (the third person singular, feminine, personal pronoun, the reflexive form of she, masculine himself, neuter itself, plural themselves)

1. (reflexive) Her; the female object of a verb or preposition that also appears as the subject.

2. (emphatic) She; an intensive repetition of the female subject, often used to indicate the exclusiveness of that person as the only satisfier of the predicate.

3. (Ireland) The subject or non-reflexive object of a predicate; she (used of upper-class ladies, or sarcastically, of women who imagine themselves to be more important than others)

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Anagrams

• Flesher, flesher