Etymology
Origin of Yankeedom
Example Sentences
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Yankeedom encompasses the New England states as well as Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 7, 2025
Now that is back at Yankee Stadium chasing his 3,000th hit in the shrine to all Yankeedom, all is sunny and rosy.
From New York Times • Jul. 8, 2011
This same John Titcomb, my very good friend, is a character peculiar to Yankeedom.
From Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe Compiled From Her Letters and Journals by Her Son Charles Edward Stowe by Stowe, Harriet Beecher
That fall, about October, mother married a man by the name of Carrier, who hailed from Yankeedom.
From A Texas Cow Boy or, fifteen years on the hurricane deck of a Spanish pony, taken from real life by Siringo, Chas. A.
The representative of Yankeedom might have been a wooden clock-case for all the response she made to this amiable inquiry, unless her rocking more furiously than ever might be construed into a reply.
From The American Gentleman's Guide to Politeness and Fashion or, Familiar Letters to his Nephews by Lunettes, Henry
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