you-all

(also y’all)

/juˈɔl/, /jəˈɔl/, /jɔl/ pronoun regional US

Definition

› you: Do you-all want some coffee before you leave? Note: You-all is a normal part of polite speech in the southeast of the US, and usually refers to more than one person.

(Definition of you-all pronoun from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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you’re telling me idiom
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you’ve
you-all pronoun
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young pl n
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