(US, dialectal, dated) : yes, ma'am.
"I would like to sit down in your shade beside you," said the Tall Man. "Yassum," said the Little Bit of a Girl. "Why do you have the crutch?" asked the Tall Man presently. "Yassum, the crutch, the doctor he gave it to me, yassum," said …
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Regional slang from around the English-speaking world — British, Australian, Irish, Caribbean, Nigerian, Filipino, AAVE, and the hyphenated-English dialects that make the internet sound local.
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