yankify

present singular third person yankifies · participle present yankifying · participle past yankified · past yankified

1. Alternative letter-case form of Yankify.

present singular third person Yankifies · participle present Yankifying · participle past Yankified · past Yankified · alternative yankify

1. transitiveTo render (someone or something) American.
2. intransitiveTo become American.

   ‘Then what can I do for you?’ he asked—he spoke rather fluent yankified English.

   1953, Ann Bridge, A Place to Stand, London: Chatto & Windus, published 1967, page 43

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   The popularity of American-style trends over here is nothing new. Yet we now seem to be nearing a point where our yankified tastes cease to be imitation and we begin to believe that we are, in fact, American.

   2012 December 21, Katie Forster, “An American Christmas: Why are we sacrificing British traditions for a yankified yuletide?”, in The Independent