yunno
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Phonetic spelling of you know.
Interjection
[edit]yunno
- (slang, pronunciation spelling) you know
- 1913, Helen van Campen, “The Woes of Two Workers”, in McClure's Magazine, XLII, No. 1 (Nov. 1913) pp. 65-8:
- Yunno the night I was to your house, when he made remarks about me gittin' a few long-distance calls an' them goin' on his bill, I seen what he was!
- 1975, John B. Bremner, review of Strictly Speaking, Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, March 1975; vol. 52, 1: p. 156. [1]
- Hopeably, Newman will win awards for Strictly Speaking. Like, yunno, I mean, Newman writes real good like newsmen used to could.
- 2001, Moon Unit Zappa, America the Beautiful[2], Simon & Schuster:
- "I mean ... I just need to disappear for a while ... Yunno, to take care of me."