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| Domain | Definition |
Slang in 1811 | YANKEY, or YANKEY DOODLE. A booby, or country lout: a name given to the New England men in North America. A general appellation for an American. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: YANKEY |
| Specialty definitions using "YANKEY": YANKEY DOODLE. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following table summarizes the usage of "YANKEY" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Yankey | Last name | 300 | 23,282 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
new workshop yankey | 7 |
daddy yankey | 3 |
new shop work yankey | 3 |
yankey | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-k-n-y-y" | |
-2 letters: kane, yank, yean. | |
-3 letters: ane, any, aye, kae, kay, kea, ken, key, nae, nay, yak, yay, yea, yen. | |
-4 letters: ae, an, ay, en, ka, na, ne, ya, ye. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)59 41 4E 4B 45 59 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.--. .- -. -.- . -.--. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01011001 01000001 01001110 01001011 01000101 01011001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)Y A N K E Y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0059 0041 004E 004B 0045 0059 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)593548453959 |
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