Yankeese
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Yankeese (uncountable)
- (rare) The American dialect of English.
- 1883, Ouida, Frescoes, Etc: Dramatic Sketches, page 119:
- Men and women too, down our way, walk out so much together that they just lose flavour for each other, and feel like two tame 'possums sitting on a gumtree. Now don't say I can't talk Yankeese!
- 1924, Louis Cohen, Reminiscences of Johannesburg and London, page 121:
- “I ain't got time,” was his reply in pure Yankeese.