damn Yankee

plural damn Yankees · alternative damyankee · alternative damnyankee

1. Southern USderogatoryhumorousA person from the northern United States (a Yankee) who moves to the South to reside there.

   "What's the difference between a Yankee and a damn Yankee?" "I've already heard it many times since I moved here. A Yankee visits the South, spends his money, and leaves. A damn Yankee stays."

   2009, Jo Maeder, When I Married My Mother: A Daughter's Search

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   REBEL A Damn Yankee comes down here to live. KC Well, I came down here to live. REBEL Well, you're going back, you said. KC Right. REBEL You're just a Yankee, not a Damn Yankee. But that's the difference between them.

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

2. derogatoryhumorousnon-US contextsAn American (i.e., a U.S. American), viewed as an interloper, an annoying pest, or a potential threat: a bloody Yank.
3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see damn, Yankee.

   I was thinking, these damn ghosts are a preset pattern, because they don't even know that I'm not a damn Yankee. "I'm going to die for something I didn't even do."

   2004, Robert "Dean" D. Russell, The Resurrection of Bayou Savage: Guitar Ghost Fighter, page 52