What is a "Yankee"

[debodun]

To a non-American, a Yankee is an American.
To an American, a Yankee is a someone living in the north.
To a northerener, a Yankee is a New Englander.
To a New Englander, a Yankee is a Vermonter.
To a Vermonter, a Yankee is someone who eats pie for breakfast.
To an American male, a Yankee is a baseball player from New York.

 

[Gary O']

To an American, a Yankee is a someone living in the north.

Especially to a southerner

I was down south for a spell in my youth
Got a bit rowdy
Got thrown in jail
Then to the pea farm

When interrogated by the honcho, I guess my lingo was a give away

'Oh, you a yankee.....heh heh, we've got a special job for you, boy'

 

[Bella]

I'm a Yankee!

 

[Alligatorob]

What is a "Yankee"

Someone from one of those cold frozen northern states who attacked us in the Great War of Northern Aggression!

Said with as much respect as this redneck can muster...

 

[Bella]

I didn't attack anybody.

 

[Alligatorob]

I didn't attack anybody.

Maybe not, but I'm sure you're to blame!

 

[PeppermintPatty]

I'm a Yankee!

Which type of Yankee are you?

 

[PeppermintPatty]

Maybe not, but I'm sure you're to blame!

Well that’s not nice.

 

[Gaer]

Yankee here!
Doesn't this go back to the Civil War? I'm a big General Grant fan!

 

[hearlady]

Yankee raised Southern adopted!

 

[Disgustedman]

I remember working in Missouri and one guy asked another "What do think of him" the guy looks at me and says "Well, he don't sound like a Yankee"....

 

[Bella]

Which type of Yankee are you?

I'm an American who lives in the northeast. I have been known to eat pie and rednecks for breakfast, and I'm a Yankee's fan.

 

[PeppermintPatty]

I'm an American who lives in the northeast. I have been known to eat pie and rednecks for breakfast, and I'm a Yankee's fan.

I always thought Yankees were red necks.




No wait! Red necks are southerners.

 

[Alligatorob]

I have been known to eat pie and rednecks for breakfast

Better stay away from you before lunch!

 

[oldpop]

What is a "Yankee"​

A doodle dandy.

 

[Gaer]

What is a "Yankee"​

A doodle dandy.

a Yankee Doodle-Do or Die. (tee-hee!}
I understand this is a Nephew of Uncle Sam!

 

[PeppermintPatty]

Yankee here!
Doesn't this go back to the Civil War? I'm a big General Grant fan!

So what exactly is a Yankee?

 

[Bella]

 

[Gaer]

So what exactly is a Yankee?

oldpop just told you!
Well, We don't sit and stare at bug-zappers.
(I'm joking!)

 

[PeppermintPatty]

oldpop just told you!
Well, We don't sit and stare at bug-zappers.
(I'm joking!)

That’s ok. I found it myself.


Yankee. noun. term for an American or someone from the northeast coast of the United States.


According to what is perhaps the most popular theory of the origin of Yankee, it comes from Dutch Janke or Janneke, which are variants of Jantje, "Johnnie," the diminutive of Jan, the Dutch equivalent of the English name John.

 

[jujube]

I've been a Southerner longer than I've been a Yankee. I'm conflicted.

 

[Dave03]

Being a lifetime Baltimore Orioles fan, I can't say what a Yankee is to me without getting banned.

 

[Lewkat]

A baseball player.

 

[Llynn]

Back in the 80's my company sent me to a facility located in rural Arkansas where I worked for nearly a year. I enjoyed the people I worked with and people living in my small town too. Sometimes, jokingly, I would be called a Yankee and I always told them I was not a Yankee rather I am a Westerner.

My best friend there was the mill manager, a Cajun, and until the day I left he would joyously call me "Damn Yankee" and then laugh is head off. Man, those Cajuns know how to have fun.

 

[Warrigal]

Funny thread. Thanks for all the laughs.