you-uns

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English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From you + uns, a form of ones representing an older pronunciation of it.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈjuːʌnz/
  • (US) IPA(key): /ˈjuənz/, /ˈjʌnz/, (originally unstressed)
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  • Rhymes: -ʌnz, -ɪ̈nz

Pronoun

you-uns

  1. (US, Midwestern US and Appalachia) You (plural, as subject or object).
    • 1891, Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country (Nebraska 2005), page 122:
      Guthrie turned upon him a face aglow with gratification. ‘That's what makes me like you-uns, stranger,’ he said, cordially.

Synonyms

  • see the list of other second-person pronouns in you

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