A large clay jug for storing water, common in Egypt and the Sudan since ancient times.
For quotations using this term, see Citations:zir.
zir
pron
US /zɚ/
Etymology Blend of z (“gender-neutral (as in ze)”) + i (“him/his”) + r (“her”).
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Gender neutral, Nonstandard, Objective, Rare, Third person Gender-neutral third-person singular accusative (object) pronoun, equivalent to singular them and coordinate with him and her.
However, it soon became very lonely as none of Alice’s school friends could see zir anymore and they soon forgot all about zir.2002, Lynsey Calderwood, Cracked: Recovering After Traumatic Brain Injury, Jessica Kingsley Publishers, →ISBN, page 155:
Etymology Blend of z (“gender-neutral (as in ze)”) + i (“him/his”) + r (“her”).
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Nonstandard, Rare Belonging to zir, gender-neutral third-person singular possessive adjective, equivalent to singular their and coordinate with his and her.
… just when it seemed like zie was beginning to get a handle on zir teapot and form normal relationships – although one could hardly call zir twice-weekly sexual encounters with the March Hare ‘normal’ …2002, Lynsey Calderwood, Cracked: Recovering After Traumatic Brain Injury, Jessica Kingsley Publishers, →ISBN, page 155: