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youse

youse is the alternative form of yous.

youse is the alternative form of you'se.

Meaning of yous

Pronoun

yous

  1. (dialectal, in plural) You.
    • What are yous up to tonight?
  2. (colloquial, dialectal, singular) You.
    • ‘Dere ain't no use for me dis side, Mr. Chames,’ he said. ‘New York's de spot. Youse don't want none of me, now you're married.’1909, PG Wodehouse, The Gem Collector

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Proper noun capitalized: Youse

Youse (plural Youses)

  1. A surname from German.

Forms of youse

pluralYouses

Origin of youse

Americanized spelling of German Jauss.

Questions about youse

What does youse mean?
Youse means a surname from German.
What is youse the alternative form of?
Youse is the alternative form of yous.
What part of speech is youse?
Youse is a proper noun.

Words near youse in the dictionary

  1. yourts
  2. yous
  3. Yousaf
  4. Yousafs
  5. Yousafzai
  6. youse
  7. youse's
  8. Yousef
  9. Yousefi
  10. Yousefis
  11. youself

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Adapted from Wiktionary: youse (page history and authors); Youse (page history and authors); yous (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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