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hes

noundeterminerpronouncontractionverbpronounattested in dialogue

  • //hiːz//
  • //hɛz//
  • //hɛs//

The person of unspecified gender previously mentioned or implied.

noun

  1. 1

    Also a form of heplural of he

determiner

  1. 1

    Variant of his when pronounced as he'sAlternative form of his when pronounced as he's; belonging to him.

    That's hes house over there.

pronoun

  1. 1

    Variant of his when pronounced as he'sAlternative form of his when pronounced as he's; that that belongs to him.

    The idea was hes not mine.

contraction

  1. 1

    Variant of he'sinformalAlternative form of he's.

Etymology

From he's via a reduction of the apostrophe.

verb

  1. 1

    Variant of hasPronunciation spelling of has, representing dialectal English.

    Jennie! Jennie! come an’ tell me thet the long-lost claim hes come back to Old Jack!

pronoun

  1. 1

    The person of unspecified gender previously mentioned or implied.

Etymology

A mixture of she and he. Coined by Ching Hai in 1990s.

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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).