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damnyankee

damnyankee is the alternative form of damn Yankee.

Meaning of damn Yankee

Noun

damn Yankee (plural damn Yankees)

  1. (Southern US) A person from the northern United States (a Yankee) who moves to the South to reside there.
    • REBEL A Damn Yankee comes down here to live.
      KC Well, I came down here to live.
      REBEL Well, you're going back, you said.
      KC Right.
      REBEL You're just a Yankee, not a Damn Yankee. But that's the difference between them.1998, Kimberly J. Cook, Divided passions: public opinions on abortion and the death penalty, page 6
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see damn, Yankee.
    • I was thinking, these damn ghosts are a preset pattern, because they don't even know that I'm not a damn Yankee. "I'm going to die for something I didn't even do."2004, Robert "Dean" D. Russell, The Resurrection of Bayou Savage: Guitar Ghost Fighter, page 52

Forms of damnyankee

pluraldamnyankees

Questions about damnyankee

What is damnyankee the alternative form of?
Damnyankee is the alternative form of damn Yankee.

Words near damnyankee in the dictionary

  1. damns by association
  2. damns the torpedoes
  3. damnum
  4. damnum absque injuria
  5. damnworthy
  6. damnyankee
  7. damnyankees
  8. Damoclean
  9. Damocles
  10. damocloid
  11. damocloids

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