ya'll

contraction
/jʌl//jɔːl/UK/jɔl/US/jɑl/

Etymology

Contraction of you all or ya all, with spelling perhaps influenced by you'll.

Definitions

  1. Pronunciation spelling of you'll.

    • Don't go in, ya'll only make thins worse.
    • Yis, yis; ya'll be forced, or else ya'll tak t' luck awaäy wi' ya, an' that wad niver deä.
    • Bill's spilin' for a fight, / An' one o' these black God-forgotten days / He'll let tha devil tap 'im on tha shoulder, / An' then ya'll see what happens.
  2. Alternative spelling of y'all.

    • So ya'll need a place to camp do ya?
    • Ya'll all gotta look real beautiful for tonight.
    • Ya'll folk forget about the street number.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for ya'll. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA