Your all's

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Pronoun 1.3 Quotations

English

Etymology

Possessive of you + all + -'s, formed after you all.

Pronoun

your all’s

1. (colloquial) Belonging to the multiple persons being addressed.

Quotations

• 1982, United States Senate Committee on Finance, Tuition Tax Credit Proposals [1]

  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 [2]

  “Bless your all’s hearts,” she said. “Take good care.”

• 2004, George Pelecanos, Soul Circus [3]

  “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.”