Yankeefy

American  

[yang-kee-fahy, -ki-] / ˈjæŋ kiˌfaɪ, -kɪ- /

verb (used with object)

Yankeefied, Yankeefying

1. to cause to acquire Yankee traits or characteristics.

   She was afraid that a year in a Connecticut college had Yankeefied her speech.

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Etymology

Origin of Yankeefy

Yankee + -fy

Example Sentences

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Yankeefied Yankeefying

In one, the story of Pygmalion compressed and Yankeefied, yet rendered additionally lovely by its homeliness; and the essence of all artistic life, in the other, presented in a form that cannot be surpassed.

From A Study of Hawthorne by Lathrop, George Parsons

"I shouldn't wonder," said I. I meant to be understood as concurring in his opinion, but such a qualified, Yankeefied assent seemed to him no assent at all.

From A Florida Sketch-Book by Torrey, Bradford

We are getting somewhat Yankeefied, especially away over to the east where so many northern people come of a winter.

From The Jucklins A Novel by Read, Opie Percival

As daddy said, when he became particularly "Yankeefied," "she didn't know beans!"

From Janice Day the Young Homemaker by Long, Helen Beecher

Handy boat, a schooner, too; sensible and Yankeefied.

From Plain Mary Smith A Romance of Red Saunders by Phillips, Henry Wallace

His business partakes more of the character of retail than wholesale, and the grinding—technically slaughtering—system of the factors of Birmingham has an unfavourable Yankeefying effect on their character.

From Rides on Railways by Sidney, Samuel