DCHP-3

Yankeeism

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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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1n.

the quality that characterizes the United States or its people in their speech, customs, political views, etc.

Quotations

1822
There are a few symptoms of yankeeism in the language, such as the use of the words grade for degree, and avails for profits.
1833
It has two newspapers. The one a violent Tory, the other a Liberal, and represented as favoring Yankeeism, which I think, from all I have seen, is not true.
<i>a</i>1855
. . . such things were now looked upon as a useless relic of "Yankeeism". . . .
2n.

a word, expression, turn of phrase, etc. that is characteristic of the speech of Americans; Americanism.

Quotations

1822
All those who read this epistle . . . will contribute . . . such words and terms as may be fairly deemed true Yankeeisms. . . .
1853
The article on the Agricultural Bureau--a Yankeeism, by the way, which we abhor--is a sad attempt at an apology for a disgraceful and barefaced job.
1882
To use a Yankeeism, it is eternally and perennially behind time.