yankee
adjective
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used by Southerners for an inhabitant of a northern state in the United States (especially a Union soldier)
general
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A nickname for a native of citizen of New England, especially one descended from old New England stock; by extension, an inhabitant of the Northern States as distinguished from a Southerner; also, applied sometimes by foreigners to any inhabitant of the United States. From meanness first this Portsmouth Yankey rose, And still to meanness all his conduct flows. Oppression, A poem by an American (Boston, 1765). Of or pertaining to a Yankee; characteristic of the Yankees. The alertness of the Yankee aspect. Hawthorne. Yankee clover. (Bot.) See Japan clover, under Japan.
noun
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an American (especially to non-Americans)
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an American who lives in New England
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an American who lives in the North (especially during the American Civil War)
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