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weuns

weuns 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 weuns

What is weuns the alternative form of?
Weuns is the alternative form of we-uns.

Words near weuns in the dictionary

  1. Wetzel
  2. Wetzel County
  3. Wetzes
  4. Wetzler
  5. Wetzlers
  6. weuns
  7. weve
  8. Wever
  9. Weverka
  10. Weverkas
  11. Wevers

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