Scottish and Irish dialectal second-person plural pronoun — the local equivalent of 'you all', 'youse', or 'y'all'.
Scottish and Irish dialectal second-person plural pronoun — the local equivalent of 'you all', 'youse', or 'y'all'. In a linguistic landscape where standard English awkwardly uses 'you' for both one person and a whole crowd, 'yez' fills the gap with a bit of regional personality. You'll hear it across Scotland and Ireland as a perfectly natural way to address a group, and it carries a warmth and informality that the standard form just doesn't.
Are yez all coming to the match on Saturday or what?
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(Ireland, especially, Dublin) Your (plural).
(chiefly, archaic, Ireland) ye have.
A Scottish dialectal adjective meaning itchy. The 'yeuk' root (meaning the itch or to itch) is well established in Scots, and '-y' is a standard adjectival suffix. The word is natural in Scottish informal speech but would sound strongly regional and potentially unfamiliar in any other context. Completely standard vocabulary for anyone raised in Scotland, but exotic to outsiders. The word is spelled to match how it sounds in Scots.
(Scotland) itchy.
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(Scotland, Ireland) you (plural).
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