herself
/həːˈsɛlf
/pronoun [third person singular]
1 [reflexive] Used as the object of a verb or preposition to refer to a female person or animal previously mentioned as the subject of the clause: she had to defend herself Jo made herself a cup of tea...
- She didn't see why she could just call herself a female Marquis and have done with it!
- Valerie used to go to Southend and treat herself to a cup of coffee when she was feeling down.
- She poured herself a cup from the flask she had tucked away in the holdall she'd brought.
2 [emphatic] She or her personally: she told me herself...
- It makes a person want to help others and to become a better person himself or herself.
- So it is for each defendant himself or herself to decide whether to answer or not.
- He hopes she might buy it herself, but admits he is not too concerned who gets it.
Origin
Old English (see her, self).
Rhymes
- vegetable juice
- vegetable kingdom
- vegetable lamb
- vegetable lard
- vegetable leather
- vegetable marrow
- vegetable mercury
- vegetable oil
- vegetable oyster
- vegetable parchment
- vegetable pear
- vegetable sheep
- vegetable shortening
- vegetable silk
- vegetable spaghetti
- vegetable sponge
- vegetable stone
- vegetable sulfur
- vegetable sulphur
- vegetable tallow
- vegetable vellum
- vegetable wax
- vegetable wool
- vegetabley
- vegetablization