Meaning of Yankee | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A native or inhabitant of some part of the United States:
   Southern-US
2. A native or inhabitant of the northern United States.
   Southern-US
3. A headsail resembling a genoa or a jib but with a high-cut clew, normally used together with a staysail. A sailing boat is typically equipped with three yankee sails of different sizes, number one being the largest.
4. A native or inhabitant of New England.
   Northern-US
5. Alternative letter-case form of Yankee from the NATO/ICAO Phonetic Alphabet.
   alt-of
6. An anglo, someone without French ancestry; a native or inhabitant of the rest of the United States.
   French, Louisiana
7. A native or inhabitant of the United States in general.
   Commonwealth, derogatory, sometimes
8. Any individual associated with the Union; that is, the United States federal government, during the American Civil War.
   Southern-US, derogatory, historical, often
9. A player for the New York Yankees.
10. 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.
11. A wager on four selections, consisting of 11 separate bets: six doubles, four trebles and a fourfold accumulator.

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Examples

“[…]so that I couldn't help telling her, sir, that in our country, leastways in Virginia (they say the Yankees are very pert), young people don't speak of their elders so.”

““So, he is the father of Emmie Slattery’s baby,” thought Scarlett. “Oh, well. What else can you expect from a Yankee man and a white-trash girl?””

“...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,...”

“Betting is complicated with win bets, place bets, each-way bets and complex bets such as doubles, trebles, Yankees and the like.”

“As the coach was by law limited to a slow pace on the bridge, we had leisure to read the wayward fancies of our predecessors inscribed in chalk, and many a true yankee name did we recognize;—the bridge is a kind of traveller’s register.”

“The duchess humoured their peculiarities, praised their country, extolled their taste, and joined in their laughter, so that, in a short time, 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, and walked from stand to stand, wherever beauty attracted them, making comments which had more truth than politeness, but never failed to be well received by those whom they distinguished.”

“Meanwhile, rumour had been tramping about with her crescit eundô; and, long before the Faculty received our Scytala, they had heard her cry—“The Board has told Major Thorntree, the Faculty shall be tried and turned right out, and shall be sued for damages done the school and the State, and—Woodville, by their unconstitutional, high-hand, big-buggish, aristocratic yankee notions!!””

“It seems as if within the past few years, our yankee friends were turning their attention in earnest to the matter of endeavoring to lighten the heavier parts of female labor.”

“The quidnunctious yankee woman is posted in gynecology. She never breeds.”

“And what was it only one of the smutty yankee pictures Terry borrows off of Corny Kelleher. Secrets for enlarging your private parts.”

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