Sekirov Dictionary

Yankee

/ˈjæŋ.ki/

noun 9
verb 1
forms 3
phrases 1

noun9

A native or inhabitant of some part of the United States.
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(Southern-US) A native or inhabitant of the northern United States.
- […]so that I couldn't help telling her, sir, that in our country, leastways in Virginia (they say the Yankees are very pert), young people don't speak of their elders so. — 1857
A native or inhabitant of New England.
An anglo, someone without French ancestry; a native or inhabitant of the rest of the United States.
(Commonwealth) A native or inhabitant of the United States in general.
A player for the New York Yankees.
(Southern-US, disapproving) Any individual associated with the Union; that is, the United States federal government, during the American Civil War.
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A wager on four selections, consisting of 11 separate bets: six doubles, four trebles and a fourfold accumulator.
- Betting is complicated with win bets, place bets, each-way bets and complex bets such as doubles, trebles, Yankees and the like. — 1980
A large triangular headsail used in light or moderate winds and set on the fore topmast stay. Unlike a genoa it does not fill the whole fore triangle, but is set in combination with the working staysail.

verb1

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(slang, offensive) to cheat, trick or swindle somebody; to misrepresent something
- Kentuckians reportedly regarded a Yankee “as a sort of Jesuit” because of his religious zeal, while in Illinois the term yankeed was synonymous with cheated. — 2011

forms

Yankeed · Yankeeing · Yankees

Phrases with Yankee

Yankee dime
A kiss.

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