Speakur

Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

ussun

/ˈʌsən/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
us-sun
IPA
/ˈʌsən/
5
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
2
Syllables
3
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Someone on the same side of the Northern Irish sectarian divide (from the speaker's perspective).

Colloquial; Humorous

Etymology

Eye dialect of us ones (“we; us”, dialectal), as a reference to us versus them (“a state of opposition between two groups, mostly based on group membership”), in mock imitation of a stereotypical parochial sectarian. Singular ussun is a back-formation from ussuns (plural). Compare themmun.

Usage

Inflected Forms

ussuns (plural) us'un (alternative) us-un (alternative) usun (alternative) us 'un (alternative) us un (alternative) ussin (alternative) us'in (alternative) us-in (alternative) usin (alternative) ussen (alternative) us'en (alternative)

Homonyms

us'un us-un us 'un us un us'en us-en ussen

Antonyms

themmun

Rhymes With

us'un us-un us 'un us un us'en us-en ussen

Questions

How do you pronounce ussun?
The recorded pronunciation is /ˈʌsən/.
What does ussun mean?
Someone on the same side of the Northern Irish sectarian divide (from the speaker's perspective).
Where does ussun come from?
Eye dialect of us ones (“we; us”, dialectal), as a reference to us versus them (“a state of opposition between two groups, mostly based on group membership”), in mock imitation of a stereotypical parochial sectarian. Singular ussun is a back-formation from ussuns (plural). Compare themmun.

How to pronounce ussun

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