come-all-you
English
Alternative forms
- come-all-ye
Etymology
From the common occurrence in such songs of an exhortation beginning "come all you".
Noun
come-all-you (plural come-all-yous)
- (dialectal, Britain, Ireland) A traditional folk or country song.
- 2006, Patrick McCabe, Winterwood, Bloomsbury 2007, p. 3:
- He slapped his thighs and whooped and catcalled, encouraging anyone who knew it to join in the ‘traditional come-all-you’!
- 2006, Patrick McCabe, Winterwood, Bloomsbury 2007, p. 3: