Definitions by Junctionbox

yankee 

Actually a mispronunciation of the word "English" by French colonists and native Americans.

See "Last of the Mohicans" by James Fenimore Cooper. "Many of the Yengeese are dead, great Sachem" says Magua... This was later bastardised into "yankee"

yankee by Junctionbox September 20, 2005