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单词 you-uns
释义

you-unspron.

Brit. /ˈjuːənz/, U.S. /ˈjuənz/
Forms:

α. 1800s youns, 1800s– you'ns, 1900s– y'uns, 1900s– ye'ns, 1900s– yins (Pennsylvania), 1900s– yinz (Pennsylvania), 1900s– younz (Pennsylvania), 1900s– yunz (Pennsylvania), 2000s– y'uns, 2000s– yens, 2000s– yoons, 2000s– yuns.

β. 1800s yo-uns, 1800s youans, 1800s– you 'ens, 1800s– you 'uns, 1800s– you ones, 1800s– you'uns, 1800s– you-uns, 1900s– you uns, 1900s– you-ones, 1900s– youin's, 2000s– you-ins.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: you pron., one pron.
Etymology: < you pron. + the plural of one pron. (see forms at that entry). On the pattern of use with plural and singular reference compare discussion at you-all pron. With the formation compare also you-alls pron.1, yez pron., yous pron., and also later we-uns pron.Compare similarly you yins , yous yins (with plural reference) in 19th- and 20th-cent. Scots use: see Sc. National. Dict. at ane adj. and at yin pron. Since the second half of the 20th cent. the α. forms (especially yinz, yunz) have come to be considered as a defining characteristic of the speech of the inhabitants of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
U.S. regional (chiefly Midland and Appalachian).
Second person singular or plural pronoun: = you pron. Cf. you-all pron.
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α.
1810 M. van H. Dwight Jrnl. 10 Nov. in Journey to Ohio (1912) 37 Youns is a word I have heard used several times, but what it means I don't know.
1865 Atlantic Monthly Sept. 344/1 There 's a camp of our men out there, two hundred of them, and they will pay you'ns for pestering me!
1921 Amer. Angler Sept. 259/1 We'll put y'uns up fer th' nite.
1941 J. Agee & W. Evans Let us now praise Famous Men 371 I don't trust yuns.
1981 S. McCool How to speak Pittsburghese at Yunz Are yunz going to the game?
1993 K. C. Constantine Bottom Liner Blues 117 Sure sure I did. I called plenty of times, but younz never come. Never.
2006 Pittsburgh Post-Gaz. (Nexis) 24 Sept. h6 Yinz was drivin' pretty fast back there.
β. 1869 Overland Monthly Aug. 131/2 During the war we all heard enough of ‘we-uns’ and ‘you-uns’, but ‘you-alls’ was to me something fresh.1885 ‘C. E. Craddock’ Prophet Great Smoky Mountains 7 I hev no call ter spen' words 'bout sech ez that, with a free-spoken man like you-uns.1927 Amer. Speech 2 345 The paterfamilias questioned solicitously: Did you uns sleep good last night?1934 W. Faulkner Dr. Martino 341 Why did you uns have to stop here?1941 Amer. Mercury June 660/2 ‘Proud to know ye!’ Sam will beam. ‘Why, you-uns be a-comin' in ter th' fire an' set a spell.’1996 J. Karon These High, Green Hills (1997) xi. 174 If they was anybody I'd do a favor, hit'd be you 'uns.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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