youse

[yooz; unstressed yuh z, yiz]

pronoun Nonstandard.

you (usually used in addressing two or more people).

Usage note

See you.

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Examples from the Web for youse

Contemporary Examples of youse

Youse better watch her final moments of catfighting, hair pulling, and lots of bleeping.
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Sadie Bass
August 3, 2011

Historical Examples of youse

Youse better not be smudgin' up her dress, Carrots—gwan off, now!
Gloria and Treeless Street
Annie Hamilton Donnell
I like the looks of youse and I'll let youse in for a dollar.
The Depot Master
Joseph C. Lincoln
“Youse might as well call me Greasy,” said the new employee.
Philo Gubb Correspondence-School Detective
Ellis Parker Butler
"You've gotter have a kid to run errands for youse, Mr. Sedgwick," he pleaded.
The Pirate of Panama
William MacLeod Raine
Father says he has a barrel of flour in t' cellar you can have and pay for it when youse can.
Labrador Days
Wilfred Thomason Grenfell

Word Origin and History for youse

dialectal inflection of you, 1893, not always used in plural senses.

Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper