The act of something or someone that is of Southern US origin, but over time has come to more closely resemble a thing or person of Northern US origin.
After five years of living in New York City, her family worried she was fully yankified.
Those yankified grits are good, but my grandmother's recipe is better.
Those yankified grits are good, but my grandmother's recipe is better.
by Texpat July 19, 2010