yous

alternative youse · alternative youz · alternative youze · alternative yuh · alternative ya

1. dialectalin pluralYou.First known use 19th c.

   What are yous up to tonight?

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   "How could anyone get hurted so simple as that? I'd be the last in the world to speak of such a thing in that case! But if yous are afraid of doing it..."

   1915, Charles L Graves, Humours of Irish life, page 255

2. colloquialdialectalsingularYou.

   ‘Yous will meet us here outside this pub,’ Harry Curniskey said.

   1938, Patrick Kavanagh, The Green Fool

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   ‘Dere ain't no use for me dis side, Mr. Chames,’ he said. ‘New York's de spot. Youse don't want none of me, now you're married.’

   1909, PG Wodehouse, The Gem Collector

   ‘But what I also seen is that youse have never had a real man before, datin' all them boys. Youse have never had anyone who'd stand up to youse.’

   1988, Kathy Lette, Girls' Night Out

   You think yous can live wi'oot money! Few months doon this hell, you'll murder for money!

   1992, Edward Bond, In the Company of Men

   He tossed off half of the drink and I gave him a refill. "What can I do for youse?" "First off, information."

   2010, Peter Corris, Torn Apart, Allen and Unwin, page 81

alternative youse · alternative youz · alternative youze · alternative yuh · alternative ya

1. dialectalThe group spoken or written to.

   What are yous kids doin?

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   "Go and find out who did it, before you come blaming me for it." "It's only youse crowd wot comes makin' a pigsty of the place," said Melons conclusively.

   1913, Norman Lindsay, A Curate in Bohemia, Sydney: N.S.W. Bookstall Co., published 1932, page 20

   “Heh, yous kids want a game?” “Dunno, suppose so.” “Dar and I versus yous; that's fair.” “Short kicks Ern, we hang on to the ball and let them do the chasing.” “You watch me take the marks Dar; them blokes won't know what hit them.”

   2015 June 1, Geoffrey Hope Gibson, Matriarch: An Australian Novel of Love and Wa, Loving Healing Press, →ISBN, page 68

alternative youse · alternative youz · alternative youze · alternative yuh · alternative ya

1. dialectalpluralplural of you

   Most of your life after babyhood has been played out by the several yous.

   1992, Robert Dubin, Central Life Interests: Creative Individualism in a Complex World, page 10

   1 more example

   There are two yous — the visible you and the real you. The visible you is the you that is known by others.

   2010, Patrick M Morley, The Man in the Mirror: Solving the 24 Problems Men Face, page 36

alternative youse · alternative youz · alternative youze · alternative yuh · alternative ya

1. dialectalindicativepresentsingularthird personThird-person singular simple present indicative form of you.

1. pluralplural of You