they-unsとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

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

代名詞

they-uns

1. (US, Midwestern US and Appalachia) They (三人称 複数形 subject pronoun).
2. (US, Midwestern US and Appalachia) Them (三人称 複数形 object pronoun).
   • 1880, George Chittenden Benham, A Year of Wreck: A True Story, by a Victim, page 106:

     […] 'only' (she said as if the thought had just struck her, かつ as if to herself) 'that would be burning up in part the property of one of we uns, as, thank God, the house don't belong to they uns.'

   • 1903, Emma Rayner, Handicapped Among the Free, page 7:

     "I'd like mighty well to raise myself, and reach a helpin' hand down to they-uns below, but I sure ain't prepared to leave you sad and lonesome." She laughed — a laugh light as a child's. "Do I look sad?" she asked. "I'll be proud as a peacock ...

同意語

• see they

関連する語

• you-uns
• we-uns