yassum

yassum

1. (dialectal, US) Alternative form of yessum
   • 1905 September, “The Crutch”, in Book of the Royal Blue, volume VIII, number 12, page 24:

     “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.

   • 1922, New York Court of Appeals, People of the State of New Yorks against Henry Brown, volume II, page 379:

     Q. If you would ask him to go to the store, for example, what would he say to that? A. He would say yassum. ¶ Q. Yes, ma'am? A. No, he wouldn't say that; he would say, yassum; and then I would think he is crazy.