"damn Yankee" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: damn Yankees [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} damn Yankee (plural damn Yankees)
  1. (Southern US) A person from the northern United States (a Yankee) who moves to the South to reside there. Tags: Southern-US Synonyms (person from northern US who moves south): damyankee, damnyankee
    Sense id: en-damn_Yankee-en-noun-JWuj0XzR Categories (other): Southern US English Disambiguation of 'person from northern US who moves south': 98 2
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see damn, Yankee.
    Sense id: en-damn_Yankee-en-noun-~fM85irl

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          "ref": "1998, Kimberly J. Cook, Divided passions: public opinions on abortion and the death penalty, page 6",
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