Yankee land
See also: Yankeeland
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- (British, informal) The United States.
- 1851 July–December, Thomas Snarlyle, “Bloomerism: A Latter-Day Fragment”, in Punch, volume XXI, page 217:
- A mad world this, my friends, a world in its lunes […] ever since when this rampant androgynous Bloomerism first came over from Yankee land.
- (Southern US) The northern states region of the United States.
- (chiefly Northern US) New England.
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the United States
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