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Yankee

noun

An American who lives in the North (especially during the American Civil War). Synonyms: Northerner, Yank.

An American who lives in New England. Synonym: New Englander.

An American (especially to non-Americans). Synonyms: Yank, Yankee-Doodle.

adjective

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

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"Yankee" Quotes from Famous Books

... "ENGLISH WIVES"—It is reported that "Yankee Girls and American Belles were the feature of the Miscellaneous Market." This should put our young men on their mettle—tin, of course, for ...

— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 103, October 1, 1892 • Various

... movements of their opponents without molesting them. During this quasi-truce, a spirit of sociability manifested itself, and our boys soon struck up an acquaintance with their dangerous neighbors. At length an exchange of papers was proposed, and upon mutual agreement of temporary amity, a Yankee and a Johnnie would step into the open space between the two lines, shake hands, inquire each other's regiment, trade ...

— Three Years in the Sixth Corps • George T. Stevens

... couldn't help mentioning the fact. Then several of us American boys expressed our belief that a prince wasn't much after all! One boy got well whipped for this and there was a free-for-all fight. The Canucks attacked the Yankee boys and, as they greatly outnumbered us, we were all badly licked and I got a black eye. This always prejudiced me against that kind ...

— Radio Boys Cronies • Wayne Whipple and S. F. Aaron

... Valley gunsmith, were seven sets of minute carvings in the form of collar insignias in all the grades from a Lieutenant General to a Lieutenant Colonel. And when they led him haltered through the streets of Richmond they labelled him "a wild Yankee from the North," because of his unshorn hair and beard, which he swore he would not cut until he had "set Jeff Davis cold." It is a pity that the science of ancient arms is not more popular in inland Pennsylvania, and that more of the curious specimens of ...

— A Catalogue of Early Pennsylvania and Other Firearms and Edged Weapons at "Restless Oaks" • Henry W. Shoemaker

... of the Yankee: "Bedad, if he was cast away on a dissolute island, he'd get up the next mornin' an' go around sellin' maps to ...

— The Book of Anecdotes and Budget of Fun; • Various

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