y'all's
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (US) IPA(key): [jɔlz]
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Determiner
[edit]y'all's
- (Southern US) Possessive of y’all (standing in for your).
- Here are y’all’s tickets for the show tonight.
- 2004, David Sedaris, Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim, Little, Brown,, →ISBN, page 80:
- “I ought to kick y’all’s asses,” he said. “Walking out on me the way you done, that’s no way to treat a friend.”
Synonyms
[edit]Pronoun
[edit]y’all’s
- (Southern US) Possessive of y’all (standing in for yours).
- This drink’s mine; Bill and Joe, those drinks are y’all’s.
Synonyms
[edit]- yours
- your all's
- your guys’s (colloquial, proscribed by most speakers)