Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗noun
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventorySomeone on the same side of the Northern Irish sectarian divide (from the speaker's perspective).
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.
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