English Dictionary

yassum

略語

アメリカ英語 略語 別表記 異形 方言

(dialectal, US) Alternative form of yessum

日本語の意味

アメリカ方言における口語的な肯定表現で、「yessum」の別の形、つまり「はい」など肯定を示す言い方 / 軽い同意や肯定のニュアンスを持つ表現

When the sergeant barked an order, he replied 'yassum' and snapped to attention.

軍曹が号令をかけると、彼は「はい、承知しました」と返事をして、ピシッと姿勢を正した。

意味（1）

(dialectal, US) Alternative form of yessum

“Yassum, I guess it wasn’t,” said the Little Bit of a Girl. “But that ain’t the funny part. I was up to th’ hospital f’r weeks an’ weeks an’ weeks, an’ I was there on a bed, an’ by me on ’nother bed was a big man who had been blew up by a ’splosion somewhere. He use to talk to me, an’ we was good friends f’r quite a spell, an’ when his wife use to bring him flowers he use to give some of ’em to me when she was gone away, yassum.