young’un noun A child. [DARE labels this term “especially South, South Midland”] Same as young one.

1859 Taliaferro Fisher’s River 114 With the “young'uns” it was a generation from one Christmas to another. 1910 Cooke Power and Glory 114 If you can make a cotton mill healthy for young-uns, you can do more than God A'mighty. 1939 Hall Coll (Hazel Creek NC) It’s been called the, the Ryan Branch ever since I was a, a young’un. 1955 Ritchie Singing Family 3 Mom had my brother Wilmer when she was forty, and she settled back to raise her thirteen young uns without any more interference. 1989 Matewan OHP-89 Every one of their young’uns is in Matewan now.