Yankeeland

Slang

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

This entry may contain outdated or offensive information, terms, and examples.

the United States.

Quotations

1832

There are many who "guess" and "calculate" and "expect" from Yankee land.

1839

. . . a party of strolling players from Yankee-land [were performing].

1918

"They say thet William Lyon Mackenzie hiself escaped tuh Yankeeland by dressin' up ez a woman in petticoats."