Yankeeland Slang DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
the United States.
- 1832  (1915)  There are many who "guess" and "calculate" and "expect" from Yankee land.
- 1839  (1964)  . . . a party of strolling players from Yankee-land [were performing].
- 1918  "They say thet William Lyon Mackenzie hiself escaped tuh Yankeeland by dressin' up ez a woman in petticoats."