you-uns

See also: youuns

English

Alternative forms

  • you'uns, y'ins, y'uns, yunz, yuns
  • yinz (Pittsburgh, Appalachia)

Etymology

From you + form of ones.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈjuːʌnz/
  • (US) IPA(key): /ˈjuʌnz/, IPA(key): /ˈjʌnz/, IPA(key): /jɪ̈nz/

Pronoun

you-uns

  1. (US, dialectal, Midwestern US and Appalachia) You (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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