Yankee 音标拼音: [j'æŋki]
n . 美国人
美国人
Yankee adj 1 :
used by Southerners for an inhabitant of a northern state in the United States (
especially a Union soldier )
n 1 :
an American who lives in the North (
especially during the American Civil War ) [
synonym : {
Yankee }, {
Yank }, {
Northerner }]
2 :
an American who lives in New England [
synonym : {
New Englander },
{
Yankee }]
3 :
an American (
especially to non -
Americans ) [
synonym : {
Yankee },
{
Yank }, {
Yankee -
Doodle }]
Yankee \
Yan "
kee \,
n . [
Commonly considered to be a corrupt pronunciation of the word English ,
or of the French word Anglais ,
by the native Indians of America .
According to Thierry ,
a corruption of Jankin ,
a diminutive of John ,
and a nickname given to the English colonists of Connecticut by the Dutch settlers of New York .
Dr .
W .
Gordon ("
Hist .
of the Amer .
War ,"
ed ,
1789 ,
vol .
i .,
pp .
324 ,
325 )
says it was a favorite cant word in Cambridge ,
Mass .,
as early as 1713 ,
and that it meant excellent ;
as ,
a yankee good horse ,
yankee good cider ,
etc .
Cf .
Scot yankie a sharp ,
clever ,
and rather bold woman ,
and Prov .
E .
bow -
yankees a kind of leggins worn by agricultural laborers .]
A nickname for a native or 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 .
[
1913 Webster ]
From meanness first this Portsmouth Yankey rose ,
And still to meanness all his conduct flows .
--
Oppression ,
A poem by an American (
Boston ,
1765 ).
[
1913 Webster ]
Yankee \
Yan "
kee \,
a .
Of or pertaining to a Yankee ;
characteristic of the Yankees .
[
1913 Webster ]
The alertness of the Yankee aspect . --
Hawthorne .
[
1913 Webster ]
{
Yankee clover }. (
Bot .)
See {
Japan clover },
under {
Japan }.
[
1913 Webster ]
84 Moby Thesaurus words for "
Yankee ":
Acadian ,
Anglo -
Indian ,
Bolshevik ,
Bolshevist ,
Bolshie ,
Brooklynese ,
Cajun ,
Canadian French ,
Carbonarist ,
Carbonaro ,
Castroist ,
Castroite ,
Charley ,
Cockney ,
Communist ,
Cong ,
Down -
Easter Yankee ,
Easterner ,
Fenian ,
French Canadian ,
Guevarist ,
Gullah ,
Jacobin ,
Leninist ,
Maoist ,
Marxist ,
Mau -
Mau ,
Midland ,
Midland dialect ,
New England dialect ,
New Englander ,
Northener ,
Northman ,
Pennsylvania Dutch ,
Puritan ,
Red ,
Red Republican ,
Roundhead ,
Sinn Feiner ,
Trotskyist ,
Trotskyite ,
VC ,
Vietcong ,
Westerner ,
Yankee Doodle ,
Yorkshire ,
anarch ,
anarchist ,
bonnet rouge ,
bundle of isoglosses ,
class dialect ,
criminal syndicalist ,
dialect ,
dialect atlas ,
dialect dictionary ,
eastlander ,
idiom ,
isogloss ,
linguistic atlas ,
linguistic community ,
linguistic island ,
local dialect ,
localism ,
northlander ,
patois ,
provincialism ,
rebel ,
red ,
regional accent ,
regionalism ,
revolutionary ,
revolutionary junta ,
revolutioner ,
revolutionist ,
revolutionizer ,
sans -
culotte ,
sans -
culottist ,
southlander ,
speech community ,
subdialect ,
subversive ,
syndicalist ,
terrorist ,
westlander
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