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Definition of 'sie'English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) .
Alternative forms
* (l)
* (l), (l) (Scotland)
Verb
To sink; fall; drop.
To fall, as in a swoon; faint.
(dialectal) To drop, as water; trickle.
To sift.
(dialectal) To strain, as milk; filter.
Related terms
* (l)
Etymology 2
Alternative forms
* (l)
Pronoun
(neologism)
* 1993 September 24, Alex Martelli, "punishment vs ethics (was Re: Discipline my daughters)", in alt.sex.bondage, Usenet :
- If the child is about the intellectual equal of the parent, sie will eventually start holding hir own in discussions,
* {{quote-book
| year = 2010
| date = September 16
| title = Amaranth and Ash
| author = Jessica Freely
| publisher = Lightning Source
| location = La Vergne
| isbn = 9781461136620
| page = 101
| passage = "You must be Ash," sie said, hir voice a shade deeper than Amaranth's.
| url = http://books.google.com/books?id=WpHMcQAACAAJ
}}
* {{quote-book
| year = 2011
| date = May 19
| title = The Other Genders: Androgyne, Genderqueer, Non-Binary Gender Variant
| author = Ken Wickham
| publisher = CreateSpace
| isbn = 9781461136620
| page = 7
| passage = Sie may feel that hir actual identity of hir gender is supposed to be both/neither male or female, outside of gender, third gender, beyond gender, absence of gender, mixing gender, changing gender, or all genders.
| url = http://books.google.com/books?id=zWmWZwEACAAJ
}}
* {{quote-book
| year = 2011
| date = August 16
| title = Disability Culture and Community Performance: Find a Strange and Twisted Shape
| author = Petra Kuppers
| publisher = Palgrave Macmillan
| location = New York
| isbn = 9780230298279
| id =
| lccn = 2011012058
| page = 18
| passage = When I asked hir about hir preferred self-identification in this scene, sie' offered me this language, '' sie sharply performs the hotness of teasing all the audience from the edge-space of androgyny.'
| url = http://books.google.com/books?id=jAP1tgAACAAJ
}}
Synonyms
* (gender-neutral) he or she,
* (gender-neutral) (singular) they
* (gender-neutral) (neologism) e, ey, shi, ze, per
Anagrams
*
Similar to 'sie'see, she, shoe, sue, scye, soe, skie, saye, shye, sowe, sawe, saie, shee, skee, swoe, seye, shie, sjoe
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