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Yankeed

Yankeed is the simple past and past participle of Yankee.

Meaning of Yankee

Verb

Yankee (third-person singular simple present Yankees, present participle Yankeeing, simple past and past participle Yankeed)

  1. (Canada, US, dated, offensive, slang, sometimes) to cheat, trick or swindle somebody; to misrepresent something
    • Kentuckians reportedly regarded a Yankee “as a sort of Jesuit” because of his religious zeal, while in Illinois the term yankeed was synonymous with cheated.2011, Colin Woodard, chapter 17, in American nations, New York: Penguin, →ISBN

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Questions about Yankeed

What is Yankeed the simple past and past participle of?
Yankeed is the simple past and past participle of Yankee.

Words near Yankeed in the dictionary

  1. Yankee swaps
  2. Yankee Thanksgiving
  3. Yankee tunesmith
  4. Yankee tunesmiths
  5. Yankee White
  6. Yankeed
  7. Yankeedom
  8. Yankeefication
  9. Yankeefied
  10. Yankeefies
  11. Yankeefy

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