yassum

English

Contraction

yassum

  1. (US, dialectal, dated) Alternative form of yessum
    • 1905 September, Harry Persons Taber, “The Crutch”, in William Elliott Lowes, editor, Book of the Royal Blue, volume VIII, number 12, Baltimore, Md.: Passenger Department, Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, →OCLC, page 24, column 1:
      "I would like to sit down in your shade beside you," said the Tall Man. "Yassum," said the Little Bit of a Girl. […] "Why do you have the crutch?" asked the Tall Man presently. "Yassum, the crutch, the doctor he gave it to me, yassum," said the Little Bit of a Girl.
    • 1922, New York Court of Appeals, People of the State of New York against Henry Brown, volume II, page 379:
      Q. If you would ask him to go to the store, for example, what would he say to that? A. He would say yassum. ¶ Q. Yes, ma'am? A. No, he wouldn't say that; he would say, yassum; and then I would think he is crazy.
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