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you pronoun Used rather than yourself or yourselves as the indirect object of a verb. [DARE labels this usage “especially South, South Midland”]
1913 Kephart Our Sthn High 298 Set down and eat you some supper. 1939 Hall Coll (Chestnut Branch NC) Get you a sourwood switch and then have it a-standing up at the door and measure your stick, and if the young one grows, why, hit’ll cure it. 1959 Pearsall Little Smoky 10 Now the stove is dirty again and Eliza jokes to San, “You better get you a jar of whiskey; the stove needs cleaning.” 1971 AOHP/ALC-260 Would you mind to work a couple hours more on a day and make you a little more money? 2012 Milnes Signs Cures Witchery Take you an iron rod and the hammer [and] put the iron rod in there.