we-uns

See also: we'uns

English

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Etymology

From we + uns, a form of ones representing an older pronunciation of it.

Pronunciation
  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈwiːənz/

Pronoun

we-uns

  1. (US, Midwestern US and Appalachia) We.
    • 1891, Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country, Nebraska, published 2005, page 16:
      “We-uns hev all been a-gittin' married round hyar lately. Whar's that purty wife o' yourn?”
    • 1970, Donald Harington, Lightning Bug:
      ‘We'uns was sittin under a tree over to the cannin factory just a little while ago, eatin our dinner, when this here stranger rode up.’
  2. (US, Midwestern US and Appalachia) Us. (Compare us'uns.)
    • 1892, Lippincott's Monthly Magazine: A Popular Journal of General Literature, page 62:
      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 […]
    • 1900, Emma Rayner, Visiting the Sin: A Tale of Mountain Life in Kentucky and Tennessee, page 293:
      But Marshall Rutherford hain't no neighbour to we-uns. He hain't belongin' to Big Creek Gap. We hain't wantin' no more of Kennedy Poteet's stock in here, and we hain't aimin' to hev 'em.

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