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she
1[ shee ]
pronoun
- the female person or animal being discussed or last mentioned; that female.
- the woman:
She who listens learns.
- anything considered, as by personification, to be feminine:
spring, with all the memories she conjures up.
noun
- a female person or animal.
- an object or device considered as female or feminine.
s/he
2[ shee-er-hee, shee-hee ]
pronoun
- she or he: used as an orthographic device to avoid a gender-specific pronoun when the gender of the antecedent is unknown or irrelevant.
she
/ ʃiː /
pronoun
- refers to a female person or animal
she is a doctor
she's a fine mare
- refers to things personified as feminine, such as cars, ships, and nations
- an informal word for it 1
she's apples
she'll be right
noun
- a female person or animal
- ( in combination )
she-cat
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And without physical evidence, cases often come down to “he said/she said.”
They would later be dubbed a “bloodthirsty” “lesbian she-wolf pack” and—most famously—“a seething, Sapphic septet.”
This is just one voter out of many, naturally, but he/she has enough to say for an army.
No he-said-she-said, no muffled sounds through the dorm ceiling, no “Maybe he has other issues.”
On the term “she-male,” GLAAD has issued similar condemnations.
Sometimes far up in the hills a she-fox would bark, or some too-aged tree of the forest would come down with a booming crash.
She was very angry with Crozier, for it was absurd, that look of deprecating homage, that "Hush-she-is-coming" in his eyes.
The males have nearly an equal vehement desire for the female mule, the she-ass, and the mare.
A too strong ardour is often attended with sterility; and the female mule is at least as ardent as the she-ass.
The he and she-ass, therefore, both incline to sterility by common and also by different qualities.
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