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YANKEE , the See also:slang or colloquial name given to a See also:citizen of the New See also:England states in See also:America, and less correctly applied, in See also:familiar See also:European usage, to any citizen of the See also:United States. It was used by the See also:British soldiers of their opponents during the See also:War of See also:Independence, and during the See also:Civil War by the Confederates of the Federal troops and by the See also:South of the See also:North generally. The origin of the name has given rise to much See also:speculation. In Dr See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William See also:Gordon's See also:History of the See also:American War (ed. 1789, 1. 324) it is said to have been a cant word at See also:Cambridge, See also:Mass., as See also:early as 1713, where it was used to See also:express See also:excellency, and he quotes such expressions as " a Yankee See also:good See also:horse." See also:Webster gives the earliest recorded use of its accepted meaning, from Oppression, a Poem by an American (See also:Boston, 1765), " From meanness first this See also:Portsmouth Yankee See also:rose," and states that it is considered to represent the See also:Indian See also:pronunciation of " See also:English " or Anglais, and was applied by the See also:Massachusetts See also:Indians to the English colonists. On the other See also:hand, the Scots " yankie," See also:sharp or See also:clever, would seem more probable as the origin of the sense represented in the Cambridge expression. Other suggestions give a Dutch origin to the name. Thus it may be a corruption of " Jankin," diminutive of " See also:Jan," See also:John, and applied as a See also:nickname to the English of See also:Connecticut by the Dutch of New See also:York. See also:Skeat (Etym. See also:Diet., r91o) quotes a Dutch See also:captain's name, Yanky, from See also:Dampier's Voyages (ed. 1699, i. 38),'and accepts the theory that " Yankee " was formed from Jan, John, and Kees, a familiar diminutive of See also:Cornelius (H. Logeman, Notes and Queries, loth See also:series, iv. 5oq, v. 15).
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