Meanings
- USalternativecontractiondateddialectalAlternative form of yessum.
Q. If you would ask him to go to the store, for example, what would he say to that? A. He would say yassum. ¶ Q. Yes, ma'am? A. No, he wouldn't say that; he would say, yassum; and then I would think he is crazy.
1922, New York Court of Appeals, People of the State of New York against Henry Brown, volume II, page 3791 more example
"I would like to sit down in your shade beside you," said the Tall Man. "Yassum," said the Little Bit of a Girl. […] "Why do you have the crutch?" asked the Tall Man presently. "Yassum, the crutch, the doctor he gave it to me, yassum," said the Little Bit of a Girl.
1905 September, Harry Persons Taber, “The Crutch”, in William Elliott Lowes, editor, Book of the Royal Blue, volume VIII, number 12, Baltimore, Md.: Passenger Department, Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, →OCLC, page 24, column 1
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