Yankee
['jæŋki]
Definition
(noun.) an American (especially to non-Americans).
(noun.) an American who lives in the North (especially during the American Civil War).
(adj.) used by Southerners for an inhabitant of a northern state in the United States (especially a Union soldier) .
Typist: Rudy--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) 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.
(a.) Of or pertaining to a Yankee; characteristic of the Yankees.
Inputed by Erma
Definition
n. a citizen of the New England States in America: an inhabitant of the United States—also Yank (coll.).—ns. Yank′eedom the country inhabited by Yankees: Yankees generally; Yank′ee-Doo′dle a Yankee from a popular air—also adj.—adj. Yank′eefied.—n. Yank′eeism Yankee characteristics.
Editor: Thea
Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of a Yankee, foretells that you will remain loyal and true to your promise and duty, but if you are not careful you will be outwitted in some transaction.
Editor: Myra
Unserious Contents or Definition
n. In Europe an American. In the Northern States of our Union a New Englander. In the Southern States the word is unknown. (See DAMNYANK.)
Checker: Rupert
Examples
- They say the Jeune Amelie was his, which was taken by the Yankee privateer Molasses. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- I've given 'em the latest Yankee shine. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Soon the Canuck boys attacked the Yankee boys, and we were all badly licked. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- All this becomes such an insulation against new ideas that when the Yankee goes abroad he takes his environment with him. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- He was possessed with a mania for patronizing Yankee ingenuity, and seeing his friends fitly furnished forth. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- How did the Term Yankee Originate? Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Sherman and I went together into a manufactory which had not ceased work on account of the battle nor for the entrance of Yankee troops. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Decimus Forthridge, of the American brig Independence, showed his Yankee pluck and resource in defeating an attack of Malay pirates with no other armament than fancy fireworks. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- A few weeks afterward I received a letter from one of my London friends, who was a doubting Thomas, upbraiding me for coming so soon under the spell of the 'Yankee inventor. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- He was so crestfallen that I believe if I had ordered him to leave the car he would have gone quietly out, saying to himself: More Yankee oppression. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Indeed when the troops in Fort Fisher heard the explosion they supposed it was the bursting of a boiler in one of the Yankee gunboats. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- He touched his hat politely to the ladies, and remarked that he supposed they had never seen so many live Yankees before in their lives. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Britain, at the expense of three millions, has killed one hundred and fifty Yankees this campaign, which is 20,000_l. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- What odd people these Yankees are. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- As had been the case on the Rio Grande, the people who remained at their homes fraternized with the Yankees in the pleasantest manner. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Yankees are a deal the most tricky, everybody knows. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Things went confoundedly with me in New York; those Yankees are cool hands, and a man of gentlemanly feelings has no chance with them. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- The Parliament, too, believed the stories of another foolish general, I forget his name, that the Yankees never _felt bold_. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
Checker: Myrna