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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 Yankees from wikipedia
- The New York
Yankees are an
American professional baseball team
based in the New York City
borough of the Bronx. The
Yankees compete in
Major League Baseball...
- of the word "
Yankee" in 1758 when he
referred to the New
England soldiers under his command. "I can
afford you two
companies of
Yankees, and the more...
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notables donning Yankees hard hats and
wielding ceremonial shovels to mark the occasion. The
Yankees continued to play in the
previous Yankee Stadium during...
- that
style of music. And in fact, they paid ****
Yankees a
million dollars not to do
another ****
Yankees record. We're like, 'Really? OK, we'll just take...
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YankeeNets was
renamed Yankee Global Enterprises,
which owns the
Yankees and the
minority share in YES as
separate companies. Therefore, the
Yankees technically...
- 110km 68miles Red Sox
Yankees The
Yankees–Red Sox
rivalry is a
Major League Baseball (MLB)
rivalry between the New York
Yankees and the
Boston Red Sox...
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during a time when the New York
Yankees dominated Major League Baseball. It is
based on Wallop's 1954
novel The Year the
Yankees Lost the Pennant. The show...
- aˈʝala roˈðɾiɣes]; born
February 3, 1976),
known professionally as
Daddy Yankee (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈdædi ˈjæŋki]), is a
Puerto Rican rapper, singer...
- team
Auburn Yankees, two
minor league baseball teams based in Auburn, New York, one in 1889, and
another affiliated with the New York
Yankees from 1958...
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According to Reisler, "The
Yankees had
pulled off the
sports steal of the century."
According to
Marty Appel in his
history of the
Yankees, the transaction, "changed...
