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Yankee

See also: yankee

Translingual

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Yankee [1]
 
Yankee [2]
 
Yankee [3]

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Etymology

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Borrowed from English Yankee.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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Yankee

  1. (international standards) NATO, ICAO, ITU & IMO radiotelephony clear code (spelling-alphabet name) for the letter Y.
  2. (nautical) Signal flag for the letter Y.
  3. (time zone) UTC−12:00


ICAO/NATO radiotelephonic clear codes
Alfa Bravo Charlie Delta Echo Foxtrot Golf Hotel India Juliett Kilo Lima Mike
November Oscar Papa Quebec Romeo Sierra Tango Uniform Victor Whiskey Xray Yankee Zulu
zero one two three (tree) four (fower) five (fife) six seven eight nine (niner) hundred thousand decimal

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  1. ^ DIN 5009:2022-06, Deutsches Institut für Normung, 2022 June, page Anhang B: Buchstabiertafel der ICAO („Radiotelephony Spelling Alphabet“)

English

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Etymology

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First attested in 1765, when it was described as "a name of derision [...] given by the Southern people on the Continent to those of New England". Various suggestions have been made as to its origin: that it derives from a Cherokee word meaning "slave" or "coward" and was applied to the New Englanders by the Virginians because the former refused to aid the latter in a war against the Cherokees; that it derives from Yengees, an Indian corruption of English; and that it derives from Janke, a pet form of the common Dutch forename Jan. The OED regards the last of these as "perhaps the most plausible".[1]

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Noun

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Yankee (plural Yankees)

  1. (chiefly Commonwealth, sometimes derogatory) A native or inhabitant of the United States.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:American
    • 1842, [anonymous collaborator of Letitia Elizabeth Landon], chapter XXXIX, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 194:
      ...in a short time, a kind of infectious mirth and pride in their bargains took possession of the place, and every one bought something, holding out their purchases to view, and praising them in the words and phraseology of the young yankees, who, finding their own importance, were not slow to avail themselves of it,...
  3. (chiefly Southern US) A native or inhabitant of the Northern United States.
  4. (chiefly Northern US) A native or inhabitant of New England.
  5. (chiefly southern Louisiana) An Anglo, as opposed to someone with French ancestry; a native or inhabitant of the rest of the United States.
  6. (nautical) 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.
  7. (baseball) A player for the New York Yankees.
  8. A wager on four selections, consisting of 11 separate bets: six doubles, four trebles and a fourfold accumulator. A minimum two selections must win to gain a return.
    • 1980 March 20, New Scientist, volume 85, number 1199:
      Betting is complicated with win bets, place bets, each-way bets and complex bets such as doubles, trebles, Yankees and the like.
  9. (American Civil War) Someone on the Union side.

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Verb

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Yankee (third-person singular simple present Yankees, present participle Yankeeing, simple past and past participle Yankeed)

  1. (dated, slang, US, Canada, sometimes offensive) to cheat, trick or swindle somebody; to misrepresent something
    • 2011, Colin Woodard, chapter 17, in American nations, New York: Penguin, →ISBN:
      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.

References

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  1. ^ “Yankee, n.”, in OED Online  ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, February 2025.

Anagrams

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Czech

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Etymology

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Borrowed from English Yankee.

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Noun

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Yankee m anim

  1. Yankee

Declension

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Declension of Yankee (masculine animate in -ee)
singular plural
nominative Yankee Yankeeové
genitive Yankeeho Yankeeů
dative Yankeemu Yankeeům
accusative Yankeeho Yankeee
vocative Yankee Yankeeové
locative Yankeem Yankeeích
instrumental Yankeem Yankeei

Further reading

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  • “Yankee”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025

Italian

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Etymology

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Unadapted borrowing from English Yankee.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈjɛn.ki/
  • Rhymes: -ɛnki
  • Hyphenation: Yàn‧kee

Noun

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Yankee m or f by sense (invariable)

  1. Yankee
  2. (nautical) Synonym of uccellina (“jigger topgallant staysail”)

Adjective

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Yankee (invariable)

  1. (relational) Yankee

Further reading

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  • Yankee in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Nigerian Pidgin

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Etymology

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Borrowed from English Yankee.

Noun

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Yankee

  1. The United States of America.
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