Yankeedom † Slang, Obs. DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
the United States.
- 1860  They sell me good Brandy at 6s. 3d. per quart while Indifferent Whiskey brought from Yankeedom and watered with R.R. muddy water fifty per cent, is sold almost at the same rate or 24s. per gal. by Pedlars.
- 1861  On Monday morning, when they did not present themselves at the hour of work, suspicion took a different form--namely, that the scamps had scampered to Yankeedom.