We'uns?

[Ed Anger]

If you're from Harlan County, you know that Kentuckians are Southerners.

That sirrah, is slander!

*slaps Cal with glove*

[BuddhaRhubarb]

At a guess it means "little ones", ie children.

what else could it mean?  :p I think j-dawg is funnin'

[Jaron]

No, its real.

For example, look at the title of this blog:

http://cobbloviate.com/2008/04/guess_what_boys_weuns_won_afte.html

I don't know what it means, but it seems to be something Ide would know more about. Of course Korea lies to try to cover for him, but thats nothing new.

[katmai]

Vinnie always stated Kentucky wasn't south, and he's from there not a carpetbagger like you sirrah!

[Eddie Teach]

At a guess it means "little ones", ie children.

what else could it mean?  :p I think j-dawg is funnin'

Well in Fate's sentence it sounds like it just means "we"

[Barrister]

Vinnie always stated Kentucky wasn't south, and he's from there not a carpetbagger like you sirrah!

Everything south of 60 degrees latitude is south.  You know that.   

[Jaron]

Vinnie always stated Kentucky wasn't south, and he's from there not a carpetbagger like you sirrah!

Everything south of 60 degrees latitude is south.  You know that.   

I'm a good ol' boy!

[katmai]

Vinnie always stated Kentucky wasn't south, and he's from there not a carpetbagger like you sirrah!

Everything south of 60 degrees latitude is south.  You know that.   

I'm a good ol' boy!

Never meaning no harm? yeah right!

[Jaron]

Is we'uns like the hillbilly version of "we" (like y'all) ?

[lustindarkness]

Is we'uns like the hillbilly version of "we" (like y'all) ?

I think so, seems I have heard this down in LA. I will ask a southern linguist expert (redneck) friend of mine tonight.

[ulmont]

According to the Cambridge History of the English Language, in Scottish English "one" was often converted into "'un", and that is the ultimate roots of "you'uns," "we'uns," and "young'uns."

See http://books.google.com/books?id=ia5tHVtQPn8C&pg=PA149&lpg=PA149&dq=%2Betymology+of+%2Bwe%27uns&source=bl&ots=sKluAwPfVn&sig=9crN8s-9ddfBFVW7vy1BFrIAPSc&hl=en&ei=mQNySpu0EYnENu_N9LAM&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1

[garbon]

Makes sense. After all I often encounter "we ones."

[MadBurgerMaker]

  I've never heard anyone say that before.  So it means...children?

[Jaron]

The We is not as in 'wee' but we as in nous

[Maximus]

Yea, "we ones" is how I always translated that.

Could also be from the German "uns" meaning "us" perhaps?