English-Thai: NECTEC's Lexitron-2 Dictionary [with local updates] yankee [N] ชาวอเมริกัน Yankee [N] คนอเมริกัน, See also: พวกแยงกี้, Syn. American, westerner

English-Thai: HOPE Dictionary [with local updates] yankee (แยง'คี) n. ชาวอเมริกัน

Oxford Advanced Learners Dictionary (pronunciation guide only) Yankee (n) (y a1 ng k ii) Yankees (n) (y a1 ng k i z)

CMU English Pronouncing Dictionary YANKEE Y AE1 NG K IY0 YANKEE'S Y AE1 NG K IY0 Z YANKEES Y AE1 NG K IY0 Z YANKEES' Y AE1 NG K IY0 Z

Japanese-English: EDICT Dictionary ヤンキーイズム [やんきーいずむ, yanki-izumu] Yankeeism [Add to Longdo] 米話 [べいわ, beiwa] Yankee talk [Add to Longdo]

German-English: TU-Chemnitz DING Dictionary Nordstaatler {m} yankees [Add to Longdo]

Result from Foreign Dictionaries (3 entries found)

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 (August 2003) [wn]:

  Yankee
      adj : used by southerners for an inhabitant of a northern state in
            the United States (especially a Union soldier) [syn:
            {Yankee}]
      n 1: an American who lives in the North (especially during the
           American Civil War) [syn: {Yankee}, {Yank},
           {Northerner}]
      2: an American who lives in New England [syn: {New Englander},
         {Yankee}, {Yank}]
      3: an American [syn: {Yankee}, {Yank}, {Yankee-Doodle}]

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