Yankee

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n. (美国的)新英格兰人, (美国)北方诸州的人, 美国佬

发音

AU /ˈjæŋ.ki/

词形变化

Yankees 复数 Yankees Yankeed Yankeeing Yankees 三单 Yankeeing 现在分词 Yankeed 过去式 Yankeed 过去分词

别名

yankee Yanky Yengee

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A native or inhabitant of some part of the United States:

    A native or inhabitant of the northern United States.

  2. 2.

    A native or inhabitant of some part of the United States:

    A native or inhabitant of the northern United States.

    A native or inhabitant of New England.

  3. 3.

    A native or inhabitant of some part of the United States:

    An anglo, someone without French ancestry; a native or inhabitant of the rest of the United States.

  4. 4.

    A native or inhabitant of some part of the United States:

    A native or inhabitant of the United States in general.

    洋基

    美国佬

    扬基

    贬义
  5. 5.

    Any individual associated with the Union; that is, the United States federal government, during the American Civil War.

    贬义 历史
  6. 6.

    A player for the New York Yankees.

    洋基

    体育 游戏
  7. 7.

    A large triangular headsail used in light or moderate winds and set on the fore topmast stay. Unlike a genoa it does not fill the whole fore triangle, but is set in combination with the working staysail.

    航海 交通
  8. 8.

    A wager on four selections, consisting of 11 separate bets: six doubles, four trebles and a fourfold accumulator.

    游戏
v.
  1. 1.

    to cheat, trick or swindle somebody; to misrepresent something

    加拿大 美国 过时 冒犯 俚语

词汇关系

名词

同义词 4

yank Yankee Doodle New Englander northerner

上位词 1

American

下位词 1

federal

相关短语

Yankee Doodle 扬基歌（美国独立战争时流行的一首歌曲） Yankee ingenuity Yankee dime Yankee land Yankee football Yankee cheese Yankee Thanksgiving Yankee cheese-box Yankee White Yankee dimes Yankee cheese-boxes Yankee Doodles Yankee Hill Yankee tunesmith Yankee tunesmiths

词源

First attested in 1765, when it was described as "a name of derision … given by the Southern people on the Continent to those of New England". Various suggestions have been made as to its origin: that it derives from a Cherokee word meaning "slave" or "coward" and was applied to the New Englanders by the Virginians because the former refused to aid the latter in a war against the Cherokees; that it derives from Yengees, an Indian corruption of English; and that it derives from Janke, a pet form of the common Dutch forename Jan. The OED regards the last of these as "perhaps the most plausible".

来源：wiktionary