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you-all

[yoo-awl, yawl]

you-all

[yoo-awl, yawl]
pronoun Chiefly South Midland and Southern U.S.
(used in direct address to two or more persons, or to one person who represents a family, organization, etc.): You-all come back now, hear? Tell your mother it's time you-all came to visit us.
Also, y'all.


Origin:
1815–25, Americanism


See you.

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a US, esp Southern, word for you, used esp when addressing more than one person

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