Yankee is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for YANKEE in dictionary:

NOUN:
• (in international radio communication) a code word for the letter y
• 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.
• an American who lives in the North (especially during the American Civil War)
• an American who lives in New England
• an American (especially to non-Americans)
• code word for the letter Y
ADJECTIVE:
• Of or pertaining to a Yankee; characteristic of the Yankees.
• used by Southerners for an inhabitant of a northern state in the United States (especially a Union soldier)

Words related to YANKEE

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Words that contain YANKEE

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How to use YANKEE in a sentence

• His man, a guileless young Englishman, came in from mowing, gaily whistling the refrain the Yankee band had been playing at intervals all afternoon.
• It is rather a Yankee trick, and is particularly offensive to some people, but Lady Maud did not mind it at all, though she heard it distinctly.
• Neither the captain nor his wife thought of looking behind, and the yankee had all the fun to himself.
• But Morse was possessed of Yankee imagination and practical ability.
• All the runaway black folks in the woods was hunted out and put in the Yankee lines.
• A Yankee, sitting with a Spaniard, offers her his cigar.
• There are Yankee soldiers at the bridge, but it will be all right you driving in, however early, to sell your stuff.
• I remember reading about that escape of yours from the Yankee prison.
• Others could be expected in the course of the night, and the Manila fire department was something that afforded the Yankee soldier unspeakable joy.
• A few widows and girls did marry Yankee men, very few.
• You are a Yankee, but a gentleman, and I accept your word.
• She was a Yankee woman, who knew just where to look for dirt.
• Accordingly, the Yankee submarine came to the surface and commenced preparations for the rescue of her own crew.
• They had not made Kansas a slave state, but they had seen a Yankee trick.
• After all is said and done, son, you can trust the inventive ability of the Yankee to see anything done by others and go them one better.
• The Yankee skirmishers were just beyond a little valley, behind trees on the opposite hill, about two hundred yards from us.
• What! Reed Anthony forming a partnership with a Yankee major? It seemed as though I had.
• Thrifty as a Scot, ingenious as a Yankee, every bit of the little property that he has is well kept.
• The ruling, aristocratic class, the so-called chivalry, the best element of the city, had been slapped deliberately in the face, and this by a lot of Yankee shopkeepers.
• He was really a Connecticut Yankee though transplanted to Ohio, and he was, in figure and character, thoroughly a New Englander.
• All Yankee girls have to be Dagoized before they can learn to sing right good and strong, you know.
• I would not mind being captured by a good Yankee captain, if it were carefully done.
• James Leigh stowed himself away aboard a Yankee full-rigged packet-ship which had to sail the following morning, and when the coast was clear he made his appearance.
• But now tell me how having a Yankee grandmother caused her to drop in here just now.
• Yankee cloths that used to go into remote and barbarous regions, through the medium of the caravan-commerce, will be known no more there for some time.
• These degrading practices crept into every business, and petty frauds soon became designated as Yankee tricks.

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