you-all

you-all
/yooh awl", yawl/, pron. Chiefly South Midland and Southern U.S.
(used in direct address to two or more persons, or to one person who represents a family, organization, etc.): You-all come back now, hear? Tell your mother it's time you-all came to visit us.
Also, y'all.
[1815-25, Amer.]
Usage. See you.

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