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we'uns

we'uns 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'uns

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

Words near we'uns in the dictionary

  1. we'll've
  2. we're
  3. we'ren't
  4. we's
  5. we'se
  6. we'uns
  7. we've
  8. we've always been at war with East Asia
  9. we've always been at war with Eastasia
  10. we've always been at war with Eurasia
  11. we'ven't

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