y'

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y'

  1. (informal, dialect, subject pronoun) you; ya; ye.
    • 1888, Robert Louis Stevenson, The Black Arrow:
      Y' are brave, but the most uncrafty lad that I can think upon!
    • 1946, Katharine Susannah Prichard, The roaring nineties: a story of the goldfields of Western Australia:
      Y'r can turn out the place, boys, if y' think Monty or me had anything to do with his blasted wallet.
    • 1986, Robert Herring, McCampbell's war:
      "Then what y'reckon y'gon' do?" the other repeated.

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Louisiana Creole

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y'

  1. prevocalic form of (they, them)
    Y'a gin traka.They're gonna have a problem.

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y'

  1. Alternative form of a (the)
    • 1867, “Prologue”, in CONGRATULATORY ADDRESS IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 114:
      To's Excellencie Constantine Harrie Phipps, y' Earle Mulgrave, Lord Lieutenant-General and General Governor of Ireland.
      To his Excellency, Constantine Henry Phipps, (the) Earl Mulgrave, Lord Lieutenant-General, and Gereral Governor of Ireland.

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  • Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 114