your all's

English

Etymology

From your + all + -'s, formed after you all.

Pronoun

your all's

  1. (colloquial, nonstandard) Belonging to the multiple persons being addressed.
    • 1982, United States Senate Committee on Finance, Tuition Tax Credit Proposals
      And yet, your all’s close questioning goes right to the heart of the discrimination and everything else, and that’s the basis of their operation.
    • 1998, Barbara Kingsolver, The Bean Trees
      “Bless your all’s hearts,” she said. “Take good care.”
    • 2004, George Pelecanos, Soul Circus
      “He might say somethin’ to our mother. I don’t want her stressin’ over me.”
      “I can understand that. We don’t need to be worryin’ your all’s moms.”

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