different between youse vs touse
youse
English
Etymology 1
Pronoun
youse
- Alternative form of yous
Usage notes
- Both yourselves and youseselves are found as reflexive forms:
- 1903, William Lincoln Balch, A True Lover's Knot: A Comedietta for Vaudeville Team:
- "How's dis fer a bloomin' goil of de gutter, hey? Make youseselves acquainted, loidies an' gents, wit' […] "
- 2006, Ridgwell Cullum, The Forfeit, Library of Alexandria (?ISBN):
- Same as youse fellers have helped yourselves out o' this bottle.
- 1903, William Lincoln Balch, A True Lover's Knot: A Comedietta for Vaudeville Team:
- Both your and youse's are found as possessive forms:
- 1901, Lippincott's Monthly Magazine, a Popular Journal of General Literature, page 34:
- "Went away quick, now, or I'll come out dere an' bite off wan o' youse's fins."
- 2004, Stephen J. Cannell, Hollywood Tough, Macmillan (?ISBN), page 152:
- "Mr. Valentine wants that youse keep that as his gift, and would very much like the pleasure of youse's company—no strings."
- 2019, August Nemo, Francis Stevens, Essential Novelists - Francis Stevens: The Woman who Invented Dark Fantasy, Tacet Books (?ISBN):
- “I've brought youse your scoffin's,” he said. “Gee! Youse was a sight when youse fell out of diat hole. His nibs is waitin' to see youse.”
- 1901, Lippincott's Monthly Magazine, a Popular Journal of General Literature, page 34:
Determiner
youse
- Alternative form of yous
- Have youse gentlemen finished talking?
Etymology 2
Contraction
youse
- Alternative form of you'se
Usage notes
- The standard contraction for you is is you’s (e.g. talking to you’s always fun). In transcribing the AAVE usage of you is where standard English has you are, either you’s or youse is used. E.g, either you’s a damn fool or youse a damn fool.
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- what you see or the physical appearance
touse
English
Etymology
From Middle English tosen. See tease. Cognate with German zausen (“to tousle”).
Verb
touse (third-person singular simple present touses, present participle tousing, simple past and past participle toused)
- (transitive) To rumple, tousle
- (transitive) To pull to pieces.
- 1844, Robert Browning, "Garden Fancies," II. Sibrandus Schafnaburgennis:
- How did he like it when the live creatures
- Tickled and toused and browsed him all over,
- And worm, slug, eft, with serious features
- Came in, each one, for his right of trover?
- 1844, Robert Browning, "Garden Fancies," II. Sibrandus Schafnaburgennis:
Noun
touse (plural touses)
- a noisy disturbance
Anagrams
- use to
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