yunno

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A form of you know — Expression signifying a pause or hesitation.

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Meanings

interjection
  1. pronunciation spellingslangPronunciation spelling of you know.

    "I mean ... I just need to disappear for a while ... Yunno, to take care of me."

    2001, Moon Unit Zappa, America the Beautiful, Simon & Schuster
    2 more examples

    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!

    1913, Helen van Campen, “The Woes of Two Workers”, in McClure's Magazine, XLII, No. 1 (Nov. 1913) pp. 65-8

    1975, John B. Bremner, review of Strictly Speaking, Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, March 1975; vol. 52, 1: p. 156. http://books.google.com/books?id=OYtZAAAAMAAJ&q=hopeably&dq=hopeably&hl=en&sa=X&ei=iSbJU8KuAaLLsATPk4GYDw&ved=0CCgQ6AEwAzgU Hopeably, Newman will win awards for Strictly Speaking. Like, yunno, I mean, Newman writes real good like newsmen used to could.

Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

nouny
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APA

yunno. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/yunno

MLA

“yunno.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/yunno. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “yunno,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/yunno.

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