yessum🔊

(US, dialectal, dated) (Used to express agreement with a woman (and, somewhat less commonly, a man)): yes, ma'am.

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"Yessum." Luster said. "We coming. You done played hell. Get up." He jerked my arm and I got up.

William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury

Little Chuck's face contracted and he said gently, "You mean him [a louse], ma'am? Yessum, he's alive. Did he scare you some way?" / Miss Caroline said desperately, "I was just walking by when it crawled out of his hair … just crawled out of his hair—"

Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

(Australia) Yes.

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