noun
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Yankee character, behaviour, or attitudes
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a typical Yankee word, expression, or trait
Etymology
Origin of Yankeeism
Example Sentences
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The words we have underscored would be called a Yankeeism now.
From Among My Books First Series by James Russell Lowell
"If one were to have one's choice, I reckon," with strong Yankeeism, "a headache would be chosen in preference to a heartache," and Aunt Debby nodded her head knowingly.
From Aunt Judith The Story of a Loving Life by Grace Beaumont
The redundant of, often used, in this country, in connection with the transitive verbs to taste and to smell, is a Yankeeism.
From The Verbalist A Manual Devoted to Brief Discussions of the Right and the Wrong Use of Words and to Some Other Matters of Interest to Those Who Would Speak and Write with Propriety. by Thomas Embly Osmun
And five years is long enough for an experiment and to prove the success of transcendental Yankeeism.
From Familiar Studies of Men and Books by Robert Louis Stevenson
And five years is long 110 enough for an experiment, and to prove the success of transcendental Yankeeism.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 3 (of 25) by Robert Louis Stevenson
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