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Yankeefied † Yankified Slang, Obs.

• 1a adj. of things, so made as to be characteristic of the United States and its people.

  • 1788  Let Mr. Habitant bring his yankefied slays, and draw up the hills and down the hills of Canada. . . .
  • 1827  (1829)  To think of persons like us . . . launched out to Canada to raw pork, Yankified rum, and a soft bed of leaves. . . .
  • 1963  Isabella (Bird) Bishop . . . found that the smart gals could hold up their end with the best of the men when it came to the Yankified jargon of table conversation . . . at an inn.

• 1b adj. of speech, so uttered as to suggest or characterize an American.

  • 1824  "Yea more, he declares, (not modestly, with an 'I suppose,' nor even with a mild Yankified 'I expect'). . . ."
  • 1825  "Nor before it either, I calculate," snuffled a yankiefied voice from the corner.
  • 1863  He [an Indian] answered when spoken to, not in Mohawk, or Cherokee, or Delaware, but in nasal Yankeefied English; nay, he seemed weakly garrulous.

• 2 adj. sympathetic to or in support of American ways, political attitudes, etc.

  • 1832  According to the doctrine of the Tories of Upper Canada, freedom of thought is treason--freedom of speech is rebellion--and liberty of forcing opinions and acting under them is becoming traitorous and yankefied.
  • 1852  (1923)  But from this folly the native-born Canadian is exempt; it is only practised by the low-born Yankee, or the Yankeefied British peasantry and mechanics.
  • 1891  (1905)  I am quite sure that the Reformers will not be Yankeefied by unrestricted reciprocity, and I hope the Conservatives will not be Yankeefied either by any such means.