this one
English
[edit]Pronoun
[edit]this one (plural these ones)
- A specified object, thing or person (especially one nearby or known). (This entry is a translation hub.)
- Which one do you want?
— This one!
- (slang) Refers to the speaker; I, me.
- Coordinate term: that one
- 2024 September 12, natalie[ee] roentgen connolly, “implementing goto statements in python (in under 50 lines)”, in natalieee dot net[1] (blogpost), archived from the original on 30 August 2025:
- please note: this one knows nothing about python. if the reader sees something that it is wrong about, they are encouraged to e-mail it. […]
- 2024 October 17, sophie raven, “building a visor for unit ⛧-440729”, in 999eagle.moe[2] (blogpost), archived from the original on 14 November 2024:
- step 2: display ¶ this took some time to do first, as this one initially had no idea how to acquire a transparent display. until randomly it found an led panel on aliexpress with holes in between the leds! this seemed like a good way to do this cheaply, so it got some of those to experiment with.
- 2025 July 16, Raven Winters, “I've Always Been Gay”, in ravenwinters.org[3] (blogpost), archived from the original on 23 July 2025:
- I learned that cis heteronormative life wasn’t what I had in mind. More like the the[sic] lesbian dream of a cat, a Subaru, a cozy apartment or house together. No white-picket fence and 2.5 kids for this one.
Usage notes
[edit]- Sense 2: Used in subculture by some speakers who avoid first-person pronouns.
Translations
[edit]a specified object
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