we-uns

alternative we'uns · alternative we'ins

1. AppalachiaMidwestern USUSWe.

   “We-uns hev all been a-gittin' married round hyar lately. Whar's that purty wife o' yourn?”

   1891, Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country, Nebraska, published 2005, page 16

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   ‘We'uns was sittin under a tree over to the cannin factory just a little while ago, eatin our dinner, when this here stranger rode up.’

   1970, Donald Harington, Lightning Bug

2. AppalachiaMidwestern USUSUs. (Compare us'uns.)

   Then he come back to we-uns laughin'; sed the Yank offered him twenty dollars a month to go home to Maine with him, an' went on like a preacher […]

   1892, Lippincott's Monthly Magazine: A Popular Journal of General Literature, page 62

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   But Marshall Rutherford hain't no neighbour to we-uns. He hain't belongin' to Big Creek Gap. We hain't wantin' no more of Kennedy Poteet's stock in here, and we hain't aimin' to hev 'em.

   1900, Emma Rayner, Visiting the Sin: A Tale of Mountain Life in Kentucky and Tennessee, page 293