YOUS
Proper noun
Yous
plural of You
Etymology
Pronoun
yous
(dialectal, chiefly, AU, NZ, South Africa, New York City, New Jersey, Philadelphia, Boston, New England, Northeastern United States, Chicago, Cincinnati, Liverpool, Cape Breton, Ireland, Scotland, Michigan, Teesside) You (plural). [from 19th c.]
(dialectal) You (singular).
Usage notes
• Yous(e) as a plural is found mainly in (Northern) England, Scotland, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, northern Nova Scotia, parts of Ontario in Canada and parts of the northeastern United States (especially areas like Boston where there was historically Irish immigration) and in Mexican-American communities in the southwest. It also occurs in Scouse.
Both yourselves and, rarely, yousselves (or youseselves, coordinate with the spelling youse) are found as reflexive forms.
• Yous(e) as a singular is found in Philadelphia, New York, Boston, Cincinnati and scattered throughout working class Italian-American communities in the Rust Belt.
Both yourself and, rarely, yousself (or youseself, coordinate with the spelling youse) are found as reflexive forms.
Synonyms
• see the list of other second-person pronouns in you
Determiner
yous
(dialect) The group spoken or written to.
Noun
yous
plural of you
Verb
yous
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of you
Source: Wiktionary
YOU
You, pron. [Possess. Your or Yours (; dat. & obj. You.] Etym: [OE.
you, eou, eow, dat. & acc., AS. eĂłw, used as dat. & acc. of ge, g,
ye; akin to OFries. iu, io, D. u, G. euch, OHG. iu, dat., iuwih,
acc., Icel. y, dat. & acc., Goth. izwis; of uncertain origin. sq.
root189. Cf. Your.]
Definition: The pronoun of the second person, in the nominative, dative,
and objective case, indicating the person or persons addressed. See
the Note under Ye.
Ye go to Canterbury; God you speed. Chaucer.
Good sir, I do in friendship counsel you To leave this place. Shak.
In vain you tell your parting lover You wish fair winds may waft him
over. Prior.
Note: Though you is properly a plural, it is in all ordinary
discourse used also in addressing a single person, yet properly
always with a plural verb. "Are you he that hangs the verses on the
trees, wherein Rosalind is so admired " Shak. You and your are
sometimes used indefinitely, like we, they, one, to express persons
not specified. "The looks at a distance like a new-plowed land; but
as you come near it, you see nothing but a long heap of heavy,
disjointed clods." Addison. "Your medalist and critic are much nearer
related than the world imagine." Addison. "It is always pleasant to
be forced to do what you wish to do, but what, until pressed, you
dare not attempt." Hook. You is often used reflexively for yourself
of yourselves. "Your highness shall repose you at the tower." Shak.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition