us'uns

us'uns

English

Pronoun

us'uns

1. (dialectal) Us. (Compare we-uns.)
   • 2007, Lawrence James, Warrior Race: A History of the British at War, St. Martin's Press (→ISBN):

     'They don't give a fuck what 'appens to us'uns.'

   • 2012, Beverly Marsaw, Charlie and Tadpole: The Last Chapter (→ISBN)

     Henry sobbed. “Ah bet she really wants ta go ta town too, but won't cuz o us'uns. She thanks we's too little ta go ta town fer tha day.” “Yeah, meybe we'uns should tell her she needs ta get ta town too. She might miss getting what's she needs."

   • 2012, Beverly Marsaw, Beyond the Pink Clouds (→ISBN), page 128:

     "What yo call us'uns? Free? We's slaves . . . an dat fo damn sho."

   • 2012, Marilyn Sue Shank, Child of the Mountains, Delacorte Books for Young Readers (→ISBN):

     “That makes us'uns rich!” She was sure right about that. We had ourselves some fun, even when we was a-working real hard.

   • 2012, Eulie Rier Cienfuegos, At Tildy's Thrift, WestBow Press (→ISBN), page 85:

     The Cherokee used to be in our area, and more than a few of us'uns done got some of the blood. There's cherry bark tea, black strap molasses, sassafras, pawpaw, a pinch of sulfur, an' a little tetch of turpentine in it.