youins
English
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- (uncommon) Alternative form of you-uns
- 1867, William Wells Brown, The Negro in the American Rebellion: His Heroism and His Fidelity, page 277:
- "Massa took us with him to carry mules and horses away from youins." "You thought we would get them. Did you wish us to get the mules?" "Oh, yes, […] We knowed youins cumin', […] "
- 2019, Karen Wimberley, A Mule, A Cow, and 5 Jugs of Shine, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 168:
- Dear Minnie Leigh, It has been years since any of yourins people have seen or heard from youins. When paw passed on, he told me what he had done. I wish I would have to know'd child. I would have fetched youins myself.