Yankee land

See also: Yankeeland

English

Alternative forms

Yankeeland, Yankee-land

Pronunciation

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Proper noun

Yankee land

(British, informal) The United States.
- 1851 July–December, Thomas Snarlyle, “Bloomerism: A Latter-Day Fragment”, in Punch, volume XXI, page 217:
  A mad world this, my friends, a world in its lunes […] ever since when this rampant androgynous Bloomerism first came over from Yankee land.
(Southern US) The northern states region of the United States.
(chiefly Northern US) New England.

Translations

the United States

Esperanto: Jankilando
Finnish: Jenkkilä (fi)
Spanish: Yankilandia

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