Meanings
nounYengee (plural Yengees or Yengeese)
plural Yengees · plural Yengeese
- obsoletepronunciation spellingPronunciation spelling of Yankee.
“It must be admitted, Nick, you are a very literal logician—‘dog won't eat dog,’ is our English saying. Still the Yankee will fight the Yengeese, it would seem. In a word, the Great Father, in England, has raised the hatchet against his American children.”
1843, [James Fenimore Cooper], Wyandotté, or The Hutted Knoll. […], volume I, Philadelphia, Pa.: Lea and Blanchard, →OCLC, page 117
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