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  1. Spanking; excellent. Also used adverbially. You may wish to know the origin of the term Yankee. Take the best account of it which your friend can procure. It was a cant, favorite word with farmer Jonathan Hastings, of Cambridge, about 1713. Two aged ministers, who were at the college in that town, have told me they remembered it to have been then in use among the students, but had no recollection of it before that period. The inventor used it to express excellency. A Yankee good horse, or Yankee cider and the like, were an excellent good horse and excellent cider. Dr. W. Gordon, Hist. Amer. War (ed. 1789), I. 324.

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  • March 4th, 2009 at 11: 07 am will aj only win 14 games on this yankee team when mussina won 20 with the 2008 team? trisha - As long as you're in pinstripes, Kei, I've got your back. —  The LoHud Yankees Blog
  • ARoid, Already a weak minded guy is gonna get destroyed in every park he visits and at times in yankee stadium. —  MetsBlog.com
  • This is seems adds up to a 2009 yankee team which looks like the highest paid failure in baseball history. —  MetsBlog.com
  • Do yankee fans get upset that so many of them have to pay extra just watch the Yankees? —  Sports News : CBSSports.com
  • Do yankee fans get upset that so many of them have to pay extra just watch the —  Sports News : CBSSports.com
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  1. A dubious word, in spelling prob. conformed to Yankee, being, if a genuine word, prob. for *yankie or *yanky, smart, active (as a noun, Scots yankie, a sharp, clever, forward woman), from yank + -ie or -y, equivalent to yanking, active: see yanking. Cf. Yankee.
 

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