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Yankee adjective - Used by Southerners for an inhabitant of a northern state in the United States (especially a Union soldier).
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Blue and Yankee are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Blue" instead an adjective "Yankee".
Nearby Word: yank
Both words in one sentence
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So you're saying those bears are not moonshining southerners fighting for the Confederacy and against that blue Union uniform-clad Igthorn yankee?
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Blue and Orange Morality: Stuart Tarleton is annoyed that Cade Calvert's Yankee stepmother is afraid of him and thinks Southerners are barbarians.
Source: Film / Gone with the Wind
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