How to pronounce“yankee”in English
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Definitions of “yankee”
A native or inhabitant of some part of the United States:
“[…]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.”
A native or inhabitant of some part of the United States:
to cheat, trick or swindle somebody; to misrepresent something
“Kentuckians reportedly regarded a Yankee “as a sort of Jesuit” because of his religious zeal, while in Illinois the term yankeed was synonymous with cheated.”
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