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who-all, pron. U.S. dial.|ˈhuːɔːl|
Also who all.
[f. who pron. + all a.]
Used for who pron. in interrogative and relative functions (with sing. as well as pl. sense).
1899B. W. Green Word-bk. Virginia Folk-Speech 424 Who-all interrog. Meaning all who: as ‘Who all were there.’ 1905A. V. Culbertson Banjo Talks 15, I ain' care who-all come dis way! 1916R. Frost Let. 21 Mar. (1964) 27, I wish I could remember..who-all I've baptized into my heresies. 1938M. K. Rawlings Yearling vii. 67 Jody asked brashly, ‘Who-all's your sweetheart?’ 1938J. Stuart Beyond Dark Hills vii. 184 Will you get up and tell the student group just why you were out there..and who all were with you? 1944in Amer. Speech (1946) XXI. 52 We always said, as the town [sc. Hawley, Minnesota] still does, ‘Who-all was there?’ and ‘What all did you do?’ Many of the Irish also use ‘who-all’ and ‘what-all’. |