Yankee

Definition: Yankee

Yankee

Adjective

1. Used by southerners for an inhabitant of a northern state in the United States (especially a Union soldier).

Noun

1. An American who lives in the North (especially during the American Civil War).

2. An American who lives in New England.

3. An American.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "Yankee" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1823. (references)

Satire

Dream Interpretation

Literature

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

Synonyms: Yankee

Cunning

Ulysses, Machiavel, sly boots, fox, reynard; Scotchman; Jew, Yankee; intriguer, intrigant; floater, Indian giver, keener, repeater.

Inhabitant

Aboriginal, American, Caledonian, Cambrian, Canadian, Canuck, downeaster, Scot, Scotchman, Hibernian, Irishman, Welshman, Uncle Sam, Yankee, Brother Jonathan.

Unimportance

Toy, plaything, popgun, paper pellet, gimcrack, gewgaw, bauble, trinket, bagatelle, Rickshaw, knickknack, whim-wham, trifle, " trifles light as air "; yankee notions.

Crosswords: Yankee

French (yank, yankee), German (yank, yankee), Italian (yankee), Manx (Yankee ), Swedish (yankee).

The only reason I ain't signing is cause you've turned into some hoity toity yankee bitch and I'd like nothing more than to piss you off (Sweet Home Alabama; writing credit: C. Jay Cox)

Yankee Doodle Floppy Disk, this is Foxtrot Zulu Milkshake, checking in at 700 feet, request permission to land (Hot Shots!; writing credit: Jim Abrahams; Pat Proft)

Astrodome? You can't grow a good hot dog indoors. Yankee Stadium (2010; writing credit: Arthur C. Clarke; Peter Hyams)

I've never seen a damn Yankee yet that could operate more than a wheelbarrow (A Family Thing; writing credit: Billy Bob Thornton; Tom Epperson)

If that dress were any lower I could see your Yankee doodles (Will & Grace; writing credit: Evan Weinstein)

He was just eighteen, proud and brave, But a Yankee laid him in his grave, (The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down; performing artist: Joan Baez)

Yankee (1966)

The Magnificent Yankee (1965)

Yankee Dood It (1956)

A Connecticut Yankee (1955)

Yankee Pasha (1954)

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

References

• Yankee Candle Company Incorporated: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

• Yankee Energy System, Inc.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

  (more reference examples)

Books

• Agony and Death on a Gold Rush Steamer: The Disastrous Sinking of the Side-Wheeler Yankee Blade (reference)

• Mark Twain: Four Complete Novels: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer/the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn/the Prince and the Pauper/a Connecticut Yankee in (reference)

• Yankee Go Home?: Canadians and Anti-Americanism (reference)

• The Complete Angler: A Connecticut Yankee Follows in the Footsteps of Walton (reference)

• Yankee Auctioneer (American Autobiography) (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Yankee (reference)

• Yankee Brew News (reference)

• Yankee Food Service (reference)

• Yankee Grower (reference)

• Yankee Magazines Travel Guide To New England (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• 20th Century with Mike Wallace - The U.S. in Latin America: Yankee Go Home (reference)

• A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur's Court/The Emperor Waltz - Double Feature (reference)

• Yankee Doodle Dandy (reference)

• Kidsongs - Yankee Doodle Dandy (reference)

• Billy Joel - Live at Yankee Stadium (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• The Clang of the Yankee Reaper (reference)

• Yankee Doodle Dandy (Songs from the Original Film Soundtrack) [SOUNDTRACK] (reference)

• Yankee Doodle Mickey (reference)

• Yankee Hotel Foxtrot [ENHANCED] (reference)

• Yankee Dreams: Wicked Good Fiddling from New England (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Consumer Goods

• Stanley 03-046 Yankee Push Drill (reference)

• Stanley 68-412 Yankee Offset Ratchets Phillips Screwdriver (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

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

Mate filleting pollock after an offshore bottom fishing trip to Georges Bank. Aboard the headboat YANKEE PATRIOT out of Gloucester. Credit: Fisheries.

The galley slave getting ready to prepare the evening meal. Aboard the headboat YANKEE CAPTAIN out of Gloucester. Credit: Fisheries.

Caption: Yankee Stadium, New York, Built with Edison Portland Cement, Main Entrance; New York, NY; Unknown Date; {08.110/2} (jpg).

Line engraving published in "Harper's Weekly", 1861, providing two scenes of the burning of Norfolk Navy Yard and the destruction of ships located there. Ships shown in the lower scene (as identified below the print), from left to right: USS United States (afire); tug Yankee with USS Cumberland (underway, leaving the area); USS Merrimack (afire in left center distance); USS Pawnee (underway, leaving the area), and USS Pennsylvania (afire). Credit: NAVY.

The upper engraving depicts the U.S. Potomac Flotilla in the Potomac between Freestone Point, Va., and Indian Head, Md., to prevent the passage of Confederates from Virginia to Maryland. Features seen include (from left to right): Tugboat Murray; USS Jacob Bell; Indian Head, Maryland; USS Yankee; USS Penguin; USS Satellite; USS Seminole; Confederate battery at Freestone Point; and the mouth of the Occoquan River. The lower engraving depicts a scene in Falls Village, Virginia, which was occupied by Federal troops. It shows Taylor's Tavern and the northern extremity of the town. Credit: NAVY.

Yankee volunteers marching into Dixie / J.H. Bufford's lith., Boston. Credit: Library of Congress.

The little King of Spain and the Yankee Pig. Credit: Library of Congress.

Old Fort Crailo, Riverside Avenue, Rensselaer, New York, birthplace of "Yankee Doodle," at time it was given to the state by Mrs. Susan DeLancey Van Rensselaer Strong of Philadelphia. Credit: Library of Congress.

Yankee fliers arrive at Paris on way 'round the world. Credit: Library of Congress.

Yankee. Credit: Library of Congress.

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

To speak literally, a hundred Irishmen, with Yankee overseers, came from Cambridge every day to get out the ice.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "Yankee": combination Yankee machine ♦ Yankee bond ♦ yankee Clipper ♦ yankee clover ♦ Yankee corn ♦ Yankee cylinder ♦ Yankee dryer ♦ Yankee Lake ♦ Yankee machine ♦ Yankee market ♦ yankee notions ♦ Yankee system. Additional references.

Beginning with "Yankee": yankee-doodle.

Ending with "Yankee": anti-yankee, pro-yankee.

Albanian

janki. (various references)

Bulgarian 

янки (yank), жител на нова англия, американски (american, columbian, transatlantic), американец (american, yank). (various references)

Czech

amerikánka, amerikán. (various references)

Danish

yankee-obligation (Yankee bond), yankeemaskine (Yankee machine), Yankeemarkedet (Yankee market), yankeecylinder (Yankee cylinder, Yankee dryer), Yankee system (Yankee system), yankee bond (Yankee bond). (various references)

Dutch

Yankee-systeem (Yankee system), Yankeecilinder (Yankee cylinder, Yankee dryer), Yankee-bond (Yankee bond), Yankee market (Yankee market), yankee (Yankee machine), gecombineerde machine (combination Yankee machine). (various references)

Farsi 

تکان تنددادن (Yank), تکان شدیدوسخت (Yank), تشنج (Convulsion, Fit, Jerk, Paroxysm, Tetanus, Yank), زودکشیدن (Jerk, Yank), امریکاءی (American, Yank). (various references)

Finnish

jenkki. (various references)

French

yankee (yank). (various references)

German

Nordstaatler (yankees). (various references)

Greek 

γιάνκησ (yank). (various references)

Hungarian

jenki (yank). (various references)

Indonesian

orang amerika (american). (various references)

Italian

yankee, americano (American, US citizen). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

モンテカルロ法 (jacket, Jacobi, Monroe, Monroe effect, Monte Carlo method, Monteverdi, Montgomery, my Paris, subculture of teenage girls ca. 1999, Yakult, Yalta, Yamaha, yank, Yankeeism, yard, yard sale, young, young adult, young Mrs, young power, young town, young traditional, young urban professional, younger generation, yuppie). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ヤンキー . (various references)

Manx

Yankee, Americaanagh (American). (various references)

Pig Latin

yankeeay.(various references)

Portuguese

norte-americano (north american). (various references)

Romanian

locuitor sau militar al nordului, locuitor din nouã anglie, iancheu (yank), american (american). (various references)

Russian 

янки (yank, yankees). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

stanovnik severnih država sad, jenki, američki (american, us). (various references)

Spanish

yanqui (yank). (various references)

Swedish

amerikan (American, US citizen, yank). (various references)

Turkish

amerikalı (american, gringo). (various references)

Ukrainian

янкі (yankeedom), мешканець нової англії, англійська мова американців, американський (american, stateside), американець (american), північний (arctic, nordic, northerly, north-polar, northward, northwardly). (various references)

Vietnamese 

người Mỹ (american), người Hoa kỳ. (various references)

Misspellings

"Yankee" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ankee, Byzance, Cyaneka, Ianke, Naykene, Pyankov, yance, yankey, Yanku, yanky. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: akene.

-2 letters: akee, eyen, eyne, kane, keen, knee, yank, yean.

-3 letters: ane, any, aye, eke, eye, kae, kay, kea, ken, key, nae, nay, nee, yak, yea, yen.

-4 letters: ae, an, ay, en, ka, na, ne, ya, ye.

+3 letters: hackneyed.

+4 letters: moneymaker.

+5 letters: moneymakers, unhackneyed.