yunno

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Phonetic spelling of you know.

Interjection[edit]

yunno

  1. (slang, pronunciation spelling) you know
    • 1913, Helen van Campen, “The Woes of Two Workers”, in McClure's Magazine, XLII, No. 1 (Nov. 1913) pp. 65-8:
      Yunno the night I was to your house, when he made remarks about me gittin' a few long-distance calls an' them goin' on his bill, I seen what he was!
    • 1975, John B. Bremner, review of Strictly Speaking, Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, March 1975; vol. 52, 1: p. 156. [1]
      Hopeably, Newman will win awards for Strictly Speaking. Like, yunno, I mean, Newman writes real good like newsmen used to could.
    • 2001, Moon Unit Zappa, America the Beautiful‎[2], Simon & Schuster:
      "I mean ... I just need to disappear for a while ... Yunno, to take care of me."

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