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you'ns

you'ns 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'ns

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

Words near you'ns in the dictionary

  1. you'll be late for your own funeral
  2. you'll get yours
  3. you'll live
  4. you'll never guess
  5. you'll've
  6. you'ns
  7. you'r
  8. you're
  9. you're a long time dead
  10. you're all right
  11. you're alright

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Adapted from Wiktionary: you'ns (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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