yinz
/yinz
/(also yunz /yənz/ //)
pronoun US dialect
(In western Pennsylvania) you (used to refer to more than one person): how yinz guys doing? glad to have yinz here Six dollars for a Coke. Yunz believe that?...
- Anyway, just keeping yinz posted.
- Coming to Pittsburgh from Caracas, he doesn't mind hearing "yinz" and "n'at."
- We had a good time joking in our Pittsburgh dialect and about how it's nice to go back—"Yunz live Dahntahn?"
Origin
1980s: representing a regional prounuciation of you-uns, a plural form appearing in Appalachia and the Midwest from the early 19th century.