y'allself

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English

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Etymology

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From y'all +‎ -self.

Pronunciation

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  • Rhymes: -ɛlf
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Pronoun

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y'allself

  1. (African-American Vernacular) Yourselves.
    • 1985, Joseph F. Trimmer, C. Wade Jennings, Fictions, page 912:
      Just what y’all call y’allself doing? That’s what I want to know. So tell me that. Just tell me that. Don’t say a word. Don’t you say one word. Don’t you say a goddamn mumbling word to me. Neither one of you.
    • 2001: Mumia Abu-Jamal, All Things Censored, CH. IV: “On Tilt” by State Design, p38
      HARRY WASHINGTON† shrieks out of an internal orgy of psychic pain: “Niggers‼ Keep my family’s name outcha mouf! Ya freaks! Ya filth! Ya racist garbage! All my family believe in God! Keep your twisted Satanic filth to y’allself! Keep my family’s name outch’all nasty mouf!”
    • 2007, G. Andi Rhos, And It Goes Like This…, page 56:
      “E got kids! Damn, time flies. Cept when you on lockdown. Time go by slower’n a muthafuckah then. That’s nice. I mean it. That’s real nice. It does a niggah proud seein’ you boys doin’ good for y’allself. Doin’ y’all thing and shit. I member when y’all was this high. Now look at y’all, you taller’n me, muthafuckah. I’ll still fuck you up, though. Believe that. I’m just fuckin’ with you. But I’m sayin’, y’all runnin’ shit. E got his family; you got your girlie and shit. She got you all whipped — bumpin’ into niggahs and shit. I’m just fuckin’ with you, man. You got some kids?”
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