Yus

Dialectal form of yes.

Adverb

adverb

1. Dialectal form of yes.
• 1892 CE: from Punch, or The London CharivariYus, to live in dirt, I feel is a `orrid degradation; but one thing I'd like to know, is it wus than living on it?
• 1922 CE: Edward J. O'Brien and John Cournos, compilers and editors, The Best British Short Stories of 1922Wych Street? Yus, of course I knoo Wych Street. Used to go there with some of the boys -- when I was Covent Garden way.

Russian юс, from Old Church Slavonic ѫсъ (ǫsъ, "big yus")

Alternative forms

• jus

Letter

1. Either of two letters, little yus (Ѧ) and big yus (Ѫ), representing nasal vowel sounds in the Cyrillic alphabet. The only major Slavic language retaining these sounds is Polish, which is written in the Latin alphabet.