Yankee
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: ball-games
baseball
gambling
games
hobbies
lifestyle
nautical
sports
transport
Etymology: First attested in 1765, when it was described as "a name of derision … given by the Southern people on the Continent to those of New England". Various suggestions have been made as to its origin: that it derives from a Cherokee word meaning "slave" or "coward" and was applied to the New Englanders by the Virginians because the former refused to aid the latter in a war against the Cherokees; that it derives from Yengees, an Indian corruption of English; and that it derives from Janke, a pet form of the common Dutch forename Jan. The OED regards the last of these as "perhaps the most plausible".
Inflected forms:
form: Yankees
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Yanky
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
form: Yankey
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
form: Yengee
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: A native or inhabitant of some part of the United States:
pos: noun
tags: Southern-US
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?”
gloss: A native or inhabitant of some part of the United States:
pos: noun
tags: Northern-US
Southern-US
gloss: A native or inhabitant of some part of the United States:
pos: noun
tags: French
Louisiana
gloss: A native or inhabitant of some part of the United States:
pos: noun
tags: Commonwealth
derogatory
sometimes
examples: ...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,...
gloss: Any individual associated with the Union; that is, the United States federal government, during the American Civil War.
pos: noun
tags: Southern-US
derogatory
historical
often
gloss: A player for the New York Yankees.
pos: noun
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
gloss: A wager on four selections, consisting of 11 separate bets: six doubles, four trebles and a fourfold accumulator.
pos: noun
examples: Betting is complicated with win bets, place bets, each-way bets and complex bets such as doubles, trebles, Yankees and the like.
Translations:
lang: Belarusian
word: я́нкі
roman: jánki
lang: Bulgarian
word: я́нки
roman: jánki
lang: Czech
word: Yankee
lang: Dutch
word: Yankee
lang: Finnish
word: jenkki
lang: German
word: Ami
lang: Hungarian
word: jenki
lang: Japanese
word: ヤンキー
roman: yankī
lang: Korean
word: 양키
roman: yangki
lang: Persian
word: یانکی
roman: yânki
lang: Polish
word: Jankes
lang: Polish
word: Jankeska
lang: Russian
word: я́нки
roman: jánki
lang: Slovak
word: Yankee
lang: Spanish
word: gabacho
lang: Ukrainian
word: я́нкі
roman: jánki