yusadv.

1775 ‘T. Bobbin’ Gloss. Lancs. Words & Phrases (new ed.) in Misc. Wks. 53 On fro Cown-edge theaw feys? Yus Sur.

1828 W. Carr Dial. Craven (ed. 2) Yus, Yes.

1883 T. Lees Easther's Gloss. Dial. Almondbury & Huddersfield at Prial I said to him ‘A fine team you have there.’ To which he merrily answered, ‘Yus, there's a prial on us when we are all at whum.’

1893 R. Kipling Many Inventions 284 Ho yuss! 'Taint much though, is it?

1898 J. D. Brayshaw Slum Silhouettes 15 ‘Yus!’ responded his wife.

1934 J. Franklyn This Gutter Life xx. 159 Yhus, movin' aht, are yer? Norra bad flet.

1968 C. M. Vines Little Nut-brown Man i. 32 ‘Please, may I ask you something?’ ‘Yus!’ said he [sc. Lord Beaverbrook], employing, in good humour, this cheerful Canadianism.

1974 W. Foley Child in Forest i. iii. 41 Yus, Dad, and if thee doosn't come and start getting thic coal in, our Mam'll be making thy eyes pop out o' thy yud!

2005 B. Nadel Last Rights (2006) xiv. 233 ‘Was Kevin Dooley an iron, then?’ I said... ‘Yus,’ he said. ‘Saw him, you know, with this geezer on the night he died.’