we-uns
UK/ˈwiːənz/
we-uns pronoun: we.
Pronoun
we-uns
- 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
- ‘We'uns was sittin under a tree over to the cannin factory just a little while ago, eatin our dinner, when this here stranger rode up.’1970, Donald Harington, Lightning Bug
- 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
- But Marshall Rutherford hain't no neighbour to we-uns. He hain't belongin' to Big Creek Gap. We hain't wantin' no more of Kennedy Poteet's stock in here, and we hain't aimin' to hev 'em.1900, Emma Rayner, Visiting the Sin: A Tale of Mountain Life in Kentucky and Tennessee, page 293
Forms of we-uns
| alternative form | we'uns |
|---|---|
| alternative form | we'ins |
Origin of we-uns
From we + uns, a form of ones representing an older pronunciation of it.
Questions about we-uns
- What does we-uns mean?
- We-uns means we.
- What part of speech is we-uns?
- We-uns is a pronoun.
- How do you pronounce we-uns?
- We-uns is pronounced /ˈwiːənz/ (UK).
Words near we-uns in the dictionary
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