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yus
yus
See also: þus
English
Adverb
yus
- (dialectal) Alternative form of yes.
- 1892, from Punch, or The London Charivari:
- Yus, to live in dirt, I feel is a `orrid degradation; but one thing I'd like to know, is it wus than living on it?
- 1922, Edward J. O'Brien and John Cournos, compilers and editors, The Best British Short Stories of 1922:
- Wych Street? Yus, of course I knoo Wych Street. Used to go there with some of the boys -- when I was Covent Garden way.
- 1892, from Punch, or The London Charivari:
Etymology 2
Russian юс (jus), from Old Church Slavonic ѫсъ (ǫsъ, “big yus”)
Alternative forms
Noun
yus (plural yuses)