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you'ins

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

Meaning of you-uns

Pronoun

you-uns

  1. (Appalachia, Midwestern-US, US) You (plural, as subject or object).
    • Guthrie turned upon him a face aglow with gratification. ‘That's what makes me like you-uns, stranger,’ he said, cordially.1891, Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country (Nebraska 2005), page 122
    Synonyms:
    the list of other second-person pronouns in you

Questions about you'ins

What is you'ins the alternative form of?
You'ins is the alternative form of you-uns.

Words near you'ins in the dictionary

  1. you'd
  2. you'd better believe it
  3. you'd complain if you were hung with a new rope
  4. you'd think
  5. you'd've
  6. you'ins
  7. you'l
  8. you'll
  9. you'll be late for your own funeral
  10. you'll get yours
  11. you'll live

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Adapted from Wiktionary: you'ins (page history and authors); you-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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