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单词 who-all
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who-allpron.

Brit. /ˈhuːɔːl/, U.S. /ˈhuˌɔl/, /ˈhuˌɑl/
Forms: Also who all.
Etymology: < who pron. and n. + all adj.
U.S. dialect.
Used for who pron. and n. in interrogative and relative functions (with singular as well as plural sense).
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1899 B. W. Green Word-bk. Virginia Folk-speech 424 Who-all interrog. Meaning all who: as ‘Who all were there.’
1905 A. V. Culbertson Banjo Talks 15 I ain' care who-all come dis way!
1916 R. Frost Let. 21 Mar. (1964) 27 I wish I could remember..who-all I've baptized into my heresies.
1938 M. K. Rawlings Yearling vii. 67 Jody asked brashly, ‘Who-all's your sweetheart?’
1938 J. Stuart Beyond Dark Hills vii. 184 Will you get up and tell the student group just why you were out there..and who all were with you?
1944 in Amer. Speech (1946) 21 52 We always said, as the town [sc. Hawley, Minnesota] still does, ‘Who-all was there?’ and ‘What all did you do?’ Many of the Irish also use ‘who-all’ and ‘what-all’.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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