Yank
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Yank englanniksi
yank
(senseid) A native or inhabitant of some part of the United States.
(alti)
(senseid) Someone from the northern United States.
(syn)
1865, unnamed Confederate officer, according to Lieutenant Joseph E. Moody, U.S.V., “Life in Confederate Prisons”, in ''Civil War Papers'', Volume II, Massachusetts Commandery (1900), page 368:
- Halt! come down there, you Yanks, come down!
{{quote-book|en|year=1944|author=Howard Fast|title=Freedom Road|pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=S-fOlzPO400C&pg=PA33&dq=yanks|page=33|publisher=M.E. Sharpe|year_published=1995|isbn=978-1-56324-440-7
{{quote-book|en|year=2004|author=O. K. Williams|title=The Way the Cards Fall|publisher=Trafford Publishing|isbn=9781412022897|pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=XvanTnXFtxwC&pg=PA16&dq=Yanks|page=16
(senseid) One from England.
Someone on the States of America against secessionist CSA|Union side.
(senseid) Someone from the States.
{{quote-text|en|year=1914|author=Ernest Bramah|title=Max Carrados
{{quote-journal|en|date=11 June 1951|title=The Yanks Are Coming: U.S. shows world we are playing for keeps as 4th Division leaves to join Eisenhower's NATO army|journal=(magazine)|Life|pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=c1EEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA38&dq=Yanks|page=38