Yankee

Quick meaning: Yankee is a noun meaning (international standards) Alternative letter-case form of Yankee from the NATO/ICAO Phonetic Alphabet.

Meaning

(international standards) Alternative letter-case form of Yankee from the NATO/ICAO Phonetic Alphabet.

More Meanings

1. (nautical) A headsail resembling a genoa or a jib but with a high-cut clew, normally used together with a staysail. A sailing boat is typically equipped with three yankee sails of different sizes, number one being the largest.
2. Obsolete form of Yankee (“either a US Northerner or any US American”).

Example Sentences

The quidnunctious yankee woman is posted in gynecology. She never breeds.

And what was it only one of the smutty yankee pictures Terry borrows off of Corny Kelleher. Secrets for enlarging your private parts.

It seems as if within the past few years, our yankee friends were turning their attention in earnest to the matter of endeavoring to lighten the heavier parts of female labor.

As the coach was by law limited to a slow pace on the bridge, we had leisure to read the wayward fancies of our predecessors inscribed in chalk, and many a true yankee name did we recognize;—the bridge is a kind of traveller’s register.

Word Forms

• yankees

Synonyms for yankee

Depending on context, synonyms include northern, northerner, yank.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include northerner, northern, yank, doodle, doodles, federal.

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