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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

y'allselves en · PRON

Etymology

From y'all + -selves.

Meanings

  1. (US, nonstandard, rare) Yourselves.
    • Y’all worms call y’allselves soldiers? Y’all still wet behind the ears from being coddled by your mamas! 2005, J. C. Arlington, A Red Horse Rode Out, page 17:
    • Thus, the list is Bill Varnedoe (NSS 3160) Field Trip Coordinator tailored both for the “do-it-y’allselves” cavers and for the convention field-trippers. 1958, National Speleological Society, NSS News, page 65:
    • “Oh, yeah, I’ll do that. And y’all take care of y’allselves. —And write me.” 1980, Samuel Wheat, Melting Pot: A Novel, page 137:
    • I know both of y’all better than y’all know y’allselves. 1996: James Earl Hardy, 2 ⁿᵈ Time Around, p104

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