Uns
[ʌnz]
Examples
- Fancy articles entirely--sell for waiters, and so on, to rich 'uns, that can pay for handsome 'uns. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Your working days must be stiff 'uns, if these is your holidays. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- I hate these nigger young uns! Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Shall colonists have their horses (and blood 'uns, if you please, good Lord! Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Ah, well; handsome uns has the greatest cause to run, sometimes, if they has any kind o' feelin, such as decent women should. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- We're but where we was; and I'll break stones on th' road afore I let these little uns clem. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- Did ye ever see such aggravating young uns? Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Always the vay vith these here old 'uns howsoever, as is such steady goers to look at. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
Edited by Hilda