Hersen

//hɜːˈsɛn// pron

pron ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Pronoun
  1. 1
    Herself. dialectal

    "She barely came to church, holed hersen up in that house and roamed moors alone every night! She cursed hersen by letting in Devil and brought a curse down on the whole valley!"

Example

More examples

"She barely came to church, holed hersen up in that house and roamed moors alone every night! She cursed hersen by letting in Devil and brought a curse down on the whole valley!"

Etymology

From Middle English hirselven, hireselven, hurre-selfen, equivalent to her + sen (“self”).

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.