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yous | null |
(dialectal, chiefly, AU, NZ, South Africa, New Jersey, Ireland, Scotland) You (plural).
(dialectal) You (singular).
* 1909 , (PG Wodehouse), The Gem Collector :
*:‘Dere ain't no use for me dis side, Mr. Chames,’ he said. ‘New York's de spot. Youse don't want none of me, now you're married.’
* 1938 , (Patrick Kavanagh), The Green Fool :
*:‘Yous will meet us here outside this pub,’ Harry Curniskey said.
* 1988 , (Kathy Lette), Girls' Night Out :
*:‘But what I also seen is that youse' have never had a real man before, datin' all them boys. '''Youse''' have never had anyone who'd stand up to ' youse .’
* 1992 , (Edward Bond), In the Company of Men :
* 1992 , Robert Dubin, Central Life Interests: Creative Individualism in a Complex World , page 10:
* 2010 , Patrick M Morley, The Man in the Mirror: Solving the 24 Problems Men Face , page 36:
A non-existent or empty value or set of values.
Zero]] quantity of [[expression, expressions; nothing.
Something that has no force or meaning.
(computing) the ASCII or Unicode character (), represented by a zero value, that indicates no character and is sometimes used as a string terminator.
(computing) the attribute of an entity that has no valid value.
One of the beads in nulled work.
(statistics) null hypothesis
Having no validity, "null and void"
insignificant
* 1924 , Marcel Proust, Within a Budding Grove :
absent or non-existent
(mathematics) of the null set
(mathematics) of or comprising a value of precisely zero
(genetics, of a mutation) causing a complete loss of gene function, amorphic.
As a pronoun yous
is (dialectal|chiefly|au|nz|south africa|new jersey|ireland|scotland) you (plural).As a noun null is
zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.yous
English
Alternative forms
* (pronoun) youse, youzePronoun
(English Pronouns)- You think yous can live wi'oot money! Few months doon this hell, you'll murder for money!
- Most of your life after babyhood has been played out by the several yous .
- There are two yous — the visible you and the real you. The visible you is the you that is known by others.
Usage notes
* The term is predominantly used in Scotland and Ireland and throughout Australia, as well as overseas areas of previous Irish emigration e.g. some parts of the US (Boston, MA and Philadelphia, PA) and northern Nova Scotia and Lanark Ontario/Canada and South Auckland, New Zealand. It also occurs in Scouse. * Yous(e)'' as a plural is found in Australia, England, Scotland, Ireland, New Zealand, South Africa, parts of the northern United States, and parts of Ontario. ''Yous(e) as a singular is found in Philadelphia, New York, Boston and scattered throughout working class Italian-American communities in the Rust Belt.Synonyms
* see the list of other second-person pronouns in (m) English second person pronounsnull
English
Noun
(en noun)- (Francis Bacon)
- Since no date of birth was entered for the patient, his age is null .
Adjective
(en adjective)- In proportion as we descend the social scale our snobbishness fastens on to mere nothings which are perhaps no more null than the distinctions observed by the aristocracy, but, being more obscure, more peculiar to the individual, take us more by surprise.