We'unsとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From we + uns, a form of ones representing an older pronunciation of it.

発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈwiːənz/

代名詞

we-uns

1. (US, Midwestern US and Appalachia) We.
   • 1891, Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country, Nebraska 2005, page 16:

     “We-uns hev all been a-gittin' married round hyar lately. Whar's that purty wife o' yourn?”

   • 1970, Donald Harington, Lightning Bug:

     ‘We'uns was sittin under a tree over to the cannin factory just a little while ago, eatin our dinner, when this here stranger rode up.’

2. (US, Midwestern US and Appalachia) Us. (Compare us'uns.)
   • 1892, Lippincott's Monthly Magazine: A Popular Journal of General Literature, page 62:

     Then he come back to we-uns laughin'; sed the Yank offered him twenty dollars a month to go home to Maine with him, an' went on like a preacher […]

   • 1900, Emma Rayner, Visiting the Sin: A Tale of Mountain Life in Kentucky and Tennessee, page 293:

     But Marshall Rutherford hain't no neighbour to we-uns. He hain't belongin' to Big Creek Gap. We hain't wantin' no more of Kennedy Poteet's stock in here, and we hain't aimin' to hev 'em.

関連する語

• you-uns
• they-uns

アナグラム

• unsew