Yankee land

See also: Yankeeland

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Yankee land

  1. (British, informal) The United States.
    • 1851 July–December, Thomas Snarlyle, “Bloomerism: A Latter-Day Fragment”, in Punch, volume XXI, page 217:
      A mad world this, my friends, a world in its lunes […] ever since when this rampant androgynous Bloomerism first came over from Yankee land.
  2. (Southern US) The northern states region of the United States.
    Coordinate terms: Dixieland, Dixie, the Southland
  3. (chiefly Northern US) New England.

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