Etymology
Origin of Yankeedom
Example Sentences
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Yankeedom encompasses the New England states as well as Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 7, 2025
Now that is back at Yankee Stadium chasing his 3,000th hit in the shrine to all Yankeedom, all is sunny and rosy.
From New York Times • Jul. 8, 2011
Tom Stevens he said war his name, an' he come From a town they call Bosting, in old Yankeedom.
From Songs of the Cattle Trail and Cow Camp by Lomax, John Avery
You see Mr. Word had told the boys that I was from the Panhandle, and old Ike thought the Panhandle was way up in Yankeedom somewhere, hence he thinking I was a yankee.
From A Texas Cow Boy or, fifteen years on the hurricane deck of a Spanish pony, taken from real life by Siringo, Chas. A.
There are idiosyncrasies in Yankeedom, there is no doubt of it.
From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2 No 4, October, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy by Various
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