Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A Yankee custom, characteristic, usage, or pronunciation.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Yankee ways or characteristics.
- noun A locution or a practice characteristic of Yankees, specifically of the inhabitants of New England.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A Yankee idiom, word, custom, or the like.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun An
American word, phrase or custom; anAmericanism .
Etymologies
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Examples
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The words we have underscored would be called a Yankeeism now.
Among My Books First Series James Russell Lowell 1855
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[Footnote *: A Yankeeism, meaning little jobs about a farm.]
The Garies and Their Friends Frank J. Webb
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English who are in Honolulu just now, in transitu from New Zealand, complain bitterly of its "Yankeeism," and are very far from being at home, and I doubt not that Mr. M---, whom you will see, will not confirm my favourable description.
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This spirit of 'Yankeeism' is the prevailing spirit of colonies.
The Bushman — Life in a New Country Edward Wilson Landor 1844
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Such recollections were not out of place in Connecticut, the centre and soul of what we denominate _Yankeeism_.
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It ` s this new wave, I guess, that ` s sweeping -- really, it ` s anti - Yankeeism, which my family now in Connecticut wants to hang me.
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Zealand, complain bitterly of its “Yankeeism,” and are very far from being at home, and I doubt not that Mr. M — -, whom you will see, will not confirm my favourable description.
The Hawaiian Archipelago Isabella Lucy 2004
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Beyond these trifles I noticed no Yankeeism, and the conversation was English in point of expression.
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It was not so much the prejudice against Yankeeism as it was the fact that Northerners might not understand — in short, a program should be indigenous.
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They used to be _rare_, (to use a Yankeeism omitted by Bartlett,) but nowadays they are overdone.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 38, December, 1860 Various
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