What is a "Yankee"

[PeppermintPatty]

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

It actually means you’re a John.

 

[Greenie]

If I may be impertinent, but in Australia the name 'yakee' is used to describe, -------- an American idiot.

 

[Bella]

If I may be impertinent, but in Australia the name 'yakee' is used to describe, -------- an American idiot.

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Well, at least this "American idiot" knows how to spell Yankee.

 

[Warrigal]

If I may be impertinent, but in Australia the name 'yakee' is used to describe, -------- an American idiot.

Yakee? Never heard the term.

 

[Tish]

Well, over here we really don't care what part of America you are from, you will always be a Septo.
It comes from rhyming Australian slang Septic Tank a Yank.

 

[Warrigal]

Well, over here we really don't care what part of America you are from, you will always be a Septo.
It comes from rhyming Australian slang Septic Tank a Yank.

Septo is a new one on me, however it is typical of the way rhyming slang mutates in OZ

 

[Tish]

Septo is a new one on me, however it is typical of the way rhyming slang mutates in OZ

It sure is.

 

[Manatee]

A Yankee comes south, spends his money and gets back up north. A DAMN Yankee comes south and STAYS.

 

[RadishRose]

I'm a Connecticut Yankee, but I was not in King Arthur's court.

 

[Nathan]

To a New Englander, a Yankee is a Vermonter.
To a Vermonter, a Yankee is someone who eats pie for breakfast.

My wife is a Vermonter, but she would eat pie for breakfast, if it was available.

My family's from the South, I was born in Cuba, but pretty much grew up in California.

 

[PeppermintPatty]

If I may be impertinent, but in Australia the name 'yakee' is used to describe, -------- an American idiot.

A special kind of impertinent stupid
Not meaning the American.

 

[jujube]

A Yankee comes south, spends his money and gets back up north. A DAMN Yankee comes south and STAYS.

My dad (born a Yankee, but who embraced his adopted Southern-ness like a beloved blanket) always called them hemorrhoids.....he'd say "they're bad enough when they come down and go back up North, but when they come down and stay, they're a pain in the a$$....."

 

[JustDave]

A Yankee comes south, spends his money and gets back up north. A DAMN Yankee comes south and STAYS.

This whole thread has gone south.