Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
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- pronoun
We ;us .
Etymologies
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Examples
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"Hain't fergot the hooch we-uns made on the Tanana, hev yeh?"
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"Hain't fergot the hooch we-uns made on the Tanana, hev yeh?"
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In many parts of the South are found the expressions, "you-uns" and "we-uns."
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"Since prohibition come in we-uns call ourselves irrigation engineers."
More Toasts Marion Dix [Editor] Mosher
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But the true mountaineer does not employ "we-uns" The
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She was monstrous lovin 'to we-uns; an' th 'way she scrubbed an' fixed up my ol 'pa when he comes home from the break-up o' Terry's Rangers, with his ol 'carcass 'bout as full o' rents an 'holes as his ragged gray war clothes!
The Red-Blooded Heroes of the Frontier Edgar Beecher Bronson
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"And we-uns kin git in free!" cried Bobby jubilantly.
Amarilly of Clothes-line Alley Belle Kanaris Maniates
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And we-uns air glad tuh get a chanct tuh pull yuh outen the water.
Darry the Life Saver The Heroes of the Coast Frank V. Webster
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It seemed hard that to say "we-uns" and "you-uns," as she habitually did, though she tried not, and to use the simple phrases of her childhood, should be thought coarse or wrong.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 31, October, 1873 Various
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When we-uns had a reckonin comin ', we naterally went out an' shot our man; but these torn-down scoundrels like Jed Martin an 'his kind they trap 'em an' send 'em to worse'n hell.
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