you knows it
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.06 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "What he did to her was wrong. —You knows it, sister!"
- "Mose would ha rallied, ef eed a been in our ward — ha ! ha ! ha ! — you knows it, Mass Richard !"
- "Buster: (impressed) You'se a cool dude, Butch. / Butch: Hey, you knows it, baby."
- "We welcome you, you knows it. Didn't even need to ask, but it fine all right you did."
Etymology
This phrase was popularised by The GLC from Newport, Wales, but has had currency in US Afro-American vernacular English and possibly elsewhere since no later than the 1960s.