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Yankee

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See also: yankee

Translingual

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Yankee (sense 1)
Yankee (sense 2)
Yankee (sense 3)

Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Borrowed from English Yankee.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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Yankee

  2. (international standards) NATO, ICAO, ITU & IMO radiotelephony clear code (spelling-alphabet name) for the letter Y.
  4. (nautical) Signal flag for the letter Y.
  6. (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

Translations

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References

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

English

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Alternative forms

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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]

Pronunciation

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Noun

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Yankee (plural Yankees)

  2. A native or inhabitant of some part of the United States:
    Alternative form: Yank
    2. (chiefly Southern US) A native or inhabitant of the northern United States.
      Alternative form: Yank
      2. (chiefly Northern US) A native or inhabitant of New England.
        Alternative form: Yank
    3. (chiefly French Louisiana) An anglo, someone without French ancestry; a native or inhabitant of the rest of the United States.
    5. (chiefly Commonwealth, sometimes derogatory) A native or inhabitant of the United States in general.
      Alternative form: Yank
      Synonyms: American, US American; see also 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, often derogatory, historical) Any individual associated with the Union; that is, the United States federal government, during the American Civil War.
    Antonyms: Confederate, southron, reb
    Coordinate terms: carpetbagger, scalawag
  4. (baseball) A player for the New York Yankees. (Should we delete(+) this sense?)
  5. (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.
  6. (gambling) A wager on four selections, consisting of 11 separate bets: six doubles, four trebles and a fourfold accumulator.
    • 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.

Derived terms

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Descendants

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Translations

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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 Paid subscription required⁠, 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.

Pronunciation

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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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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.

Proper noun

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Yankee

  1. The United States of America.
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