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YANKEY

Specialty Definition: YANKEY

DomainDefinition

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.

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"YANKEY" is a common misspelling or typo for: yanked, Yankee.


Crosswords: YANKEY

Specialty definitions using "YANKEY": YANKEY DOODLE. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Name Usage Frequency: YANKEY

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.
NameUsage/GenderUsage per 100
million Persons
Rank in USA
YankeyLast name30023,282
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: YANKEY

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
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.

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Anagrams: YANKEY

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.

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Alternative Orthography: YANKEY


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

59 41 4E 4B 45 59

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-.--.    .-    -.    -.-    .    -.--.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01011001 01000001 01001110 01001011 01000101 01011001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#89 &#65 &#78 &#75 &#69 &#89

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)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

593548453959

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Names: Frequency
4. Expressions: Internet
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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