"yessum" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1905 September, Harry Persons Taber, “The Crutch”, in William Elliott Lowes, editor, Book of the Royal Blue, volume VIII, number 12, Baltimore, Md.: Passenger Department, Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, →OCLC, page 24, column 1:",
          "text": "\"I would like to sit down in your shade beside you,\" said the Tall Man. \"Yassum,\" said the Little Bit of a Girl. […] \"Why do you have the crutch?\" asked the Tall Man presently. \"Yassum, the crutch, the doctor he gave it to me, yassum,\" said the Little Bit of a Girl.",
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          "text": "\"Yessum.\" Luster said. \"We coming. You done played hell. Get up.\" He jerked my arm and I got up.",
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          "ref": "1960 July 11, Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, Philadelphia, Pa., New York, N.Y.: J[oshua] B[allinger] Lippincott Company, →OCLC, part 1, page 32:",
          "text": "Little Chuck's face contracted and he said gently, \"You mean him [a louse], ma'am? Yessum, he's alive. Did he scare you some way?\" / Miss Caroline said desperately, \"I was just walking by when it crawled out of his hair … just crawled out of his hair—\"",
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          "agreement",
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          "woman",
          "woman#Noun"
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          "man",
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          "sense": "(informal) used to express agreement with a woman",
          "word": "kyllä rouva"
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          "word": "ja fröken"
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        "(Australia) Alternative form of yes."
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          "text": "Little Chuck's face contracted and he said gently, \"You mean him [a louse], ma'am? Yessum, he's alive. Did he scare you some way?\" / Miss Caroline said desperately, \"I was just walking by when it crawled out of his hair … just crawled out of his hair—\"",
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      "word": "yassum"
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      "sense": "(informal) used to express agreement with a woman",
      "word": "kyllä rouva"
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