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YankeeYankee Yan"kee, a.
Of or pertaining to a Yankee; characteristic of the Yankees.
The alertness of the Yankee aspect. --Hawthorne.
Yankee clover. (Bot.) See Japan clover, under Japan. Yankee
Yankee Yan"kee, n. [Commonly considered to be a corrupt
pronunciation of the word English, or of the French word
Anglais, by the native Indians of America. According to
Thierry, a corruption of Jankin, a diminutive of John, and a
nickname given to the English colonists of Connecticut by the
Dutch settlers of New York. Dr. W. Gordon (``Hist. of the
Amer. War,' ed, 1789, vol. i., pp. 324, 325) says it was a
favorite cant word in Cambridge, Mass., as early as 1713, and
that it meant excellent; as, a yankee good horse, yankee good
cider, etc. Cf. Scot yankie a sharp, clever, and rather bold
woman, and Prov. E. bow-yankees a kind of leggins worn by
agricultural laborers.]
A nickname for a native or citizen of New England, especially
one descended from old New England stock; by extension, an
inhabitant of the Northern States as distinguished from a
Southerner; also, applied sometimes by foreigners to any
inhabitant of the United States.
From meanness first this Portsmouth Yankey rose, And
still to meanness all his conduct flows. --Oppression,
A poem by an
American
(Boston,
1765).
Meaning of Yankee from wikipedia
- The term
Yankee and its
contracted form Yank have
several interrelated meanings, all
referring to
people from the
United States.
Their various meanings...
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Yankee Stadium is a
baseball stadium located in the
Bronx in New York City. It is the home
field of
Major League Baseball’s New York
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- The New York
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American professional baseball team
based in the New York City
borough of the Bronx. The
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- The
original Yankee Stadium was
located in the
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except for 1974–1975...
- A
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issued by a
foreign entity, such as a bank or company, that is
issued and
traded in the
United States and
denominated in U.S. dollars...
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Yankee traders is a term used
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