Yankee English

Meaning Yankee meaning

What does Yankee mean?

Yankee

— noun an American who lives in the North (especially during the American Civil War)

— adjective used by Southerners for an inhabitant of a northern state in the United States (especially a Union soldier)

— noun an American (especially to non-Americans)

— noun (= New Englander) an American who lives in New England

Synonyms Yankee synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as Yankee?

Yankee English » English

American

Yank

Usonian

yank

Yankee-Doodle

Usanian

United Statesian

US-ian

US American

Northerner

New Englander

westerner

stateside

in the States

citizen of the United States

Native American

ICAO spelling alphabet

American person

Examples Yankee examples

How do I use Yankee in a sentence?

Movie subtitles

The Yankee sailor boy?

Then what are you bothering me for, Yankee?

The Yankee Wilkerson and the white-trash Slattery girl?

When we were in Saratoga, I didn't see Yankee girls taking naps.

And you won't see no Yankee girls at the ball, neither.

After we've fired on the Yankee rascals at Fort Sumter, we've got to fight.

General Lee has completely whipped the enemy. and swept the Yankee army northward from Virginia!

We have with us tonight, that most daring of all blockade runners. whose fleet schooners, slipping past the Yankee guns. have brought us here the very woolens and laces we wear tonight.

My poor Ashley, in a Yankee prison. - Melanie?

He's a regular Yankee now, and he was making a brag. that his Carpetbagger friends run the taxes way up sky-high on Tara.

Get off this place, you dirty Yankee!

Yankee coward!

A Yankee?

I intend to make the best of things, even if they are Yankee things.

We came astern with a Yankee.

You've no call to take up with Yankee manners.

I reckon even those Yankee sharpers aren't smart enough to turn the Mississippi around.

To that washed-out little Yankee?

That's a right nice little Yankee. Pretty as a red wagon.

Is that what they do in Yankee land?

Have the little Yankee join in.

General Lee has completely whipped the enemy and swept the Yankee army northward from Virginia!

We have with us tonight, that most daring of all blockade runners whose fleet schooners, slipping past the Yankee guns have brought us here the very woolens and laces we wear tonight.

He's a Yankee spy.

A Yankee farmer's as good and maybe better than any Dutchman on the Hudson River.

News and current affairs

In France, during the 1992 referendum on the Maastricht Treaty, one poster used by campaigners for a 'Yes' vote featured a Yankee cowboy squashing the globe beneath his boots.