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we'ins

we'ins is the alternative form of we-uns.

Meaning of we-uns

Pronoun

we-uns

  1. (Appalachia, Midwestern-US, US) We.
    • “We-uns hev all been a-gittin' married round hyar lately. Whar's that purty wife o' yourn?”1891, Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country, Nebraska, published 2005, page 16
  2. (Appalachia, Midwestern-US, US) Us. (Compare us'uns.)
    • Then he come back to we-uns laughin'; sed the Yank offered him twenty dollars a month to go home to Maine with him, an' went on like a preacher […]1892, Lippincott's Monthly Magazine: A Popular Journal of General Literature, page 62

Questions about we'ins

What is we'ins the alternative form of?
We'ins is the alternative form of we-uns.

Words near we'ins in the dictionary

  1. we wuz kangz
  2. we wuz kangz n sheeit
  3. we wuz kangz n shiet
  4. we'd
  5. we'd've
  6. we'ins
  7. we'l
  8. we'll
  9. we'll 'it
  10. we'll've
  11. we're

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Adapted from Wiktionary: we'ins (page history and authors); we-uns (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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