01 n. A nickname for a native or citizen of New England, especially one descended from old New England stock; by extension, an inhabitant of the …
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A nickname for a native or citizen of New England, especially one descended from old New England stock; by extension, an inhabitant of the Northern States as distinguished from a Southerner; also, applied sometimes by foreigners to any inhabitant of the United States.“From meanness first this Portsmouth Yankey rose, And still to meanness all his conduct flows.” — Oppression, A poem by an American (Boston, 1765).