Yan|kee

Yan|kee
Yan|kee «YANG kee», noun, adjective.
–n.
1. a) a native of New England. b) a native of any one of the Northern states.
2. Southern U.S. a Northerner.
3. a native or inhabitant of the United States; American.
4. U.S. a code name for the letter y, used in transmitting radio messages.
–adj.
of or having to do with Yankees: »

Yankee shrewdness.

╂[American English, perhaps ultimately < Dutch Jan Kees, dialectal variant of Jan Kaas (literally) John Cheese, a nickname for Dutch and English settlers; the -s was taken in English as a plural ending]

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