you-uns
التعريفات والمعاني
== English ==
=== Alternative forms ===
you'uns, you'ns, youuns, youns
youins, you'ins, y'ins, y'uns, yunz, yuns
yinz (Pittsburgh, Appalachia)
you'nes (Greater Cumberland Valley, Appalachia)
=== Etymology ===
Eye dialect of you ones.
=== Pronunciation ===
(UK) IPA(key): /ˈjuːʌnz/
(US) IPA(key): /ˈjuənz/, /ˈjʌnz/, (originally unstressed) [jɪ̈nz]
Rhymes: -ʌnz, -ɪ̈nz
=== Pronoun ===
you-uns
(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
==== Related terms ====
we-uns, they-uns