"Yank" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /jæŋk/ Audio: en-au-Yank.ogg Forms: Yanks [plural]
Rhymes: -æŋk Etymology: Clipping of Yankee. Etymology templates: {{clipping|en|Yankee}} Clipping of Yankee Head templates: {{en-noun}} Yank (plural Yanks)
  1. (US) A Yankee, a Northerner: someone from the Northern United States, especially from New England. Tags: US Categories (place): United States Translations (native of the Northern USA): jenkki (Finnish), Yankee [feminine, masculine] (French)
    Sense id: en-Yank-en-noun-6Tpta7tq Disambiguation of United States: 48 52 Categories (other): American English Disambiguation of 'native of the Northern USA': 68 32
  2. (slang, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, Canada, UK, sometimes derogatory, by extension) An American: someone from the United States. Tags: Australia, Canada, Ireland, New-Zealand, UK, broadly, derogatory, slang, sometimes Categories (place): United States Synonyms (inhabitant of the USA): American
    Sense id: en-Yank-en-noun-SVkVaW44 Disambiguation of United States: 48 52 Categories (other): Australian English, British English, Canadian English, Irish English, New Zealand English, English entries with incorrect language header, English informal demonyms, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Esperanto translations, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with French translations, Terms with German translations, Terms with Japanese translations, Terms with Portuguese translations, Terms with Russian translations, Terms with Spanish translations, Terms with Swedish translations, Australian nicknames for people, Demonyms for Americans Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 44 56 Disambiguation of English informal demonyms: 41 59 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 28 72 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 41 59 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 41 59 Disambiguation of Terms with Esperanto translations: 41 59 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 38 62 Disambiguation of Terms with French translations: 36 64 Disambiguation of Terms with German translations: 36 64 Disambiguation of Terms with Japanese translations: 33 67 Disambiguation of Terms with Portuguese translations: 42 58 Disambiguation of Terms with Russian translations: 33 67 Disambiguation of Terms with Spanish translations: 33 67 Disambiguation of Terms with Swedish translations: 41 59 Disambiguation of Australian nicknames for people: 29 71 Disambiguation of Demonyms for Americans: 30 70 Disambiguation of 'inhabitant of the USA': 32 68
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: American Translations (native of the USA): jankio (Esperanto), jenkki (Finnish), ricain [masculine] (French), ricaine [feminine] (French), ricains [masculine, plural] (French), ricaines [feminine, plural] (French), amerloque [feminine, masculine] (French), Yankee [feminine, masculine] (French), Ami [masculine] (German), Yankee [masculine] (German), ianque (Portuguese), а́мер (ámer) [masculine] (Russian), я́нки (jánki) [masculine] (Russian), пиндо́с (pindós) [ethnic, masculine, offensive, slur] (Russian), yanqui (Spanish), jänkare [common-gender] (Swedish)
Disambiguation of 'native of the USA': 0 0

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-11-06 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-10-02 using wiktextract (fbeafe8 and 7f03c9b). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.