yankn.¹

Brit.

/jaŋk/, U.S.

/jæŋk/

Etymology: < yank v.

colloquial (originally dialect and U.S.).

1. Scottish. A sudden sharp blow or stroke.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > impact > striking > striking in specific manner > [noun] > a sharp or smart blow

dab1300

rapc1330

thresta1400

bruntc1400

knap14..

yedderc1440

gird1487

yert1509

fillip1543

yark1555

flewet1570

stingera1577

flirt1577

wherret1577

riprapc1580

spang1595

nick1651

lick1680

flip1692

yowf1711

clink1722

wherrya1726

click1773

whither1791

swata1800

yank1818

snock1825

clip1830

snop1849

clinkera1863

siserary1893

blip1894

1818 J. Hogg Brownie of Bodsbeck II. 18 I took up my neive an' gae him a yank on the haffat.

2. Originally U.S. A sudden vigorous pull, a jerk. Also figurative.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > impelling or driving > pushing and pulling > [noun] > pulling > a sudden or sharp pull

tita1425

pluck1440

twitching1478

twitch?1523

tuck1648

twang1721

twiga1800

twerk1820

yank1888

1888 A. C. Gunter Mr. Potter viii. 100 Her brother giving her a masculine yank [from the gondola], and jumping her upon the steps.

1906 N.Y. Globe 20 Aug. 6 Here is a fantastic proposition from Germany, which takes one back with an unpleasant yank into the middle ages.

1913 M. Roberts Salt of Sea xviii. 447 He gave the twine a yank.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

Yankn.²adj.

Brit.

/jaŋk/, U.S.

/jæŋk/

Etymology: Shortened < Yankee n. and adj.

colloquial.

1. = Yankee n. and adj.

ΘΚΠ

the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of America > native or inhabitant of North America > native or inhabitant of U.S.A. > [noun] > parts of

New Englander1637

bayman1641

New English1647

Novangle1650

Novanglian1752

Yankee1765

cracker1766

Yank?1778

bushwhacker1809

tuckahoe1816

southerner1817

Yengees1819

muskrat1823

blue belly1827

half horse and half alligator1828

Southron1828

northerner1831

westerner1835

Northman1836

Easterner1838

Far-Wester1843

southwesterner1845

western1846

sand-hiller1848

Vineyarder1851

mountain boomer1859

Far Westerner1862

blue-nosed Yankee1866

Appalachian1888

sloper1892

Ozarkian1893

rebel1895

reb1897

Middle Westerner1899

hillbilly1900

Midwesterner1916

Ozarker1920

Geechee1926

Middle American1944

upstater1944

Mid-American1959

?1778 Conquerors 14 Give me five hundred brave and chosen men, I'll drive the Yanks from north to south again.

1834 R. H. Froude in Newman's Lett. (1891) II. 77 The Yank edition of the ‘Christian Year’.

1872 M. S. De Vere Americanisms 23 During the war the Yanks became the universal designation of Federal soldiers in the Confederacy, even as they were called Rebs—not Rebels—by Northern men.

1886 All Year Round 14 Aug. 35 As clever at a trick as a Yank.

2. An American car.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > powered vehicle > motor car > [noun] > American car

rubber1945

Yank1959

1959 Listener 4 June 982/1 The young labourer..will invest his cash in buying a car ‘on the 'ire’—not a modest second-hand British product but a ‘big Yank’.

1977 Hot Car Oct. 11/3 It's not raunchy like a yank but it sure is clean and ripe for customising.

Compounds

ˈYankland n. the land of the Yankees, America.Apparently an isolated use.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > named regions of earth > America > North America > [noun] > United States

states1776

United States1776

Yankee-land1803

God's own country1807

U.S.1834

Yankland1834

yankeedoodledom1845

Yankeedom1851

the land of the free1884

land of opportunity1948

U.S. of A.1973

1834 R. H. Froude in Newman's Lett. (1891) II. 37 When I shall go to Yankland I do not know.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

yankv.

Brit.

/jaŋk/, U.S.

/jæŋk/

Etymology: Origin unknown.

colloquial (originally dialect and U.S.)

a. transitive. To pull with a sudden vigorous movement; to jerk or twitch vigorously.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > impelling or driving > pushing and pulling > push and pull [verb (transitive)] > pull > suddenly or sharply

twickeOE

plitchOE

to-twitchc1175

twitchc1330

tricec1386

tita1400

pluckc1400

ramp1567

snatch1590

pook1633

squitch1680

twig1755

shrug1807

yank1848

1848 J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms To Yank, to twitch or jerk powerfully; a term used in New England.

1854 Spirit of the Times (N.Y.) in R. H. Thornton Amer. Gloss. (1912) Afore you could say Sam Patch, them hogs were yanked aout of the lot, kilt and scraped.

1874 J. W. Long Amer. Wild-fowl Shooting viii. 143 How angry it has made me to have a nervous know-nothing catch me by the arm and yank me down, for fear a duck that he happened to catch sight of half a mile off would see me and take alarm.

1902 Sat. Rev. 11 Jan. 39 Yanking up fence-posts that were wanted in a hurry.

1950 R. Macaulay World my Wilderness xii. 102 His companion, a younger man with less of the Gael in his aspect and speech, jumped down into the copse,..and yanked her to her feet.

1964 F. Chichester Lonely Sea & Sky xii. 129 I kept the seaplane on the surface, planing until I thought it was going as fast as it could, when I yanked the stick back hard, to pull her off suddenly.

1966 Listener 14 Apr. 534/1 Any incident, from three youths yanking a cigarette machine off a wall to the mods' and rockers' riots, qualifies as ‘gang delinquency’.

1968 B. Hines Kestrel for Knave 57 Crossley grabbed a boy by the arm and began to yank him into the open.

1977 C. McCullough Thorn Birds i. ii. 35 Fee's muscular arm yanked the brush ruthlessly through knots and tangles until Meggie's eyes watered.

1983 Austral. Personal Computer Aug. 62/1 If you want the disks back..you cannot just yank them out.

absolute.1867 Visit to Nantucket (Schele de Vere 649) He yanked and yanked, but the sapling wouldn't come, and thar he was caught in his own trap.1884 Bath Herald 11 Oct. 6/2 When a woman has a new pair of shoes sent home she..never shoves her toes into them, and yanks and hauls until she is red in the face.

b. transferred.

ΚΠ

1876 W. Besant & J. Rice Golden Butterfly II. xiii. 209 Yank them both to bed.

1883 E. W. Nye Baled Hay 64 Which the poet seems competent to yank loose from the history of the savage.

1896 G. B. Shaw Let. 7 Dec. in E. Terry & G. B. Shaw Corr. (1931) 139 Hearing that Janet..had no refuge but the Solferino, she promptly went to that haunt, yanked Janet..out of it,..and delivered her punctually..for the performance.

1901 F. Hume Golden Wang-ho xiii I'd have yanked Jinfou to the police-station straight away.

1902 W. N. Harben Abner Daniel xxxiii. 279 I don't think what you did to yank Wilson into line was nigh as bad.

1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. xiv. [Oxen of the Sun] 406 Alexander J. Christ Dowie, that's yanked to glory most half this planet from 'Frisco Beach to Vladivostok.

1948 Sunday Pictorial 18 July 16/6 In the end attendants had to dive in and yank them out.

1977 J. I. M. Stewart Madonna of Astrolabe xiv. 197 I had to yank him out of Oxford—a shocking place, if Cambridge is anything to go by.

c. To withdraw (a theatrical show, an advertisement, etc.); to cancel. U.S.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > inaction > not doing > abstaining or refraining from action > abstain or refrain from (action) [verb (transitive)] > cancel a projected action

to call off1620

scrub1828

yank1940

bag1962

1940 Amer. Speech 15 205/1 Yank, to withdraw, usually because of poor attendance.

1976 Time 27 Sept. 65/1 The paper..ticked off 24 local real estate advertisers with a dispiriting account of development along a local lake; they have since yanked their ads.

1978 Chicago June 12/1 The Tribune flung up more flak for Greene in ads on TV and at the top of page one (it yanked an Arts & Fun ad that repeated the ‘prostitute’ column).

2. intransitive. To pull or jerk vigorously; figurative to be vigorously active. Usually const. at.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > impelling or driving > pushing and pulling > push and pull [verb (intransitive)] > pull > sharply

twitchc1300

pluck?a1430

twanga1678

yank1822

pull1826

the world > action or operation > manner of action > vigour or energy > act or do vigorously [verb (intransitive)]

twig1573

to go at ——1675

to go it1794

to come it1796

to lay it on thick1806

to blaze away1826

bushwhack1837

steam1842

split1844

rustle1882

to work like a demon1884

yank1888

go-at-it1904

to go somea1911

to put a jerk in it1919

to go (also do) one's (also a) dinger1923

to work (etc.) one's ass off1924

to go to town1933

to gie (or give) it laldy1974

1822 H. Ainslie Pilgrimage to Land of Burns 1 They went not forth like gaugers, A yanking on their cloots.

1888 Cassell's Encycl. Dict. VII. (at cited word) She yanked on at the work.

1906 ‘O. Henry’ in Munsey's Mag. Aug. 556/2 (1961) ix. 131 The drawer stuck, and he yanked at it savagely.

1912 J. Masefield Dauber iii. ii The staysails flogged, the tackle yanked and shook.

1957 J. Kerouac On the Road i. ix. 55 I yanked at the window; it was nailed.

1977 C. McCullough Thorn Birds i. 8 She..began to comb Agnes's hair... She was yanking inexpertly at a large knot.

1981 Sunday Express 19 July (Colour Suppl.) /2 Suddenly Sally/Julie yanks at the neck~line of her dress.

Derivatives

ˈyanking adj. (a) active, ‘pushing’ (Scottish); (b) jerking, twitching.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > manner of action > vigour or energy > [adjective] > energetic or enterprising

adventurousc1330

emprising1584

enterprising1601

spirited1601

yanking1823

go-ahead1829

go-aheadative1836

go-aheadish1851

fore-reaching1864

get-up-and-get1874

rustling1877

outpushing1884

thrustful1909

go-getting1912

push-and-go1916

can-do1926

go-go-go1954

the world > movement > impelling or driving > pushing and pulling > [adjective] > relating to or used in pulling > pulling suddenly or sharply

yanking1823

twigging1864

1823 W. Scott St. Ronan's Well I. ii. 35 I canna bide their yanking way of knapping English at every word.

1876 A. D. Whitney Sights & Insights xxix Poor Emery Ann had had a yanking old horse, and a wretchedly uncomfortable saddle.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

n.¹1818

n.²adj.?1778

v.1822

单词	yank
释义	yankn.¹ Brit. /jaŋk/, U.S. /jæŋk/ Etymology: < yank v. colloquial (originally dialect and U.S.). 1. Scottish. A sudden sharp blow or stroke. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > impact > striking > striking in specific manner > [noun] > a sharp or smart blow dab1300 rapc1330 thresta1400 bruntc1400 knap14.. yedderc1440 gird1487 yert1509 fillip1543 yark1555 flewet1570 stingera1577 flirt1577 wherret1577 riprapc1580 spang1595 nick1651 lick1680 flip1692 yowf1711 clink1722 wherrya1726 click1773 whither1791 swata1800 yank1818 snock1825 clip1830 snop1849 clinkera1863 siserary1893 blip1894 1818 J. Hogg Brownie of Bodsbeck II. 18 I took up my neive an' gae him a yank on the haffat. 2. Originally U.S. A sudden vigorous pull, a jerk. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > impelling or driving > pushing and pulling > [noun] > pulling > a sudden or sharp pull tita1425 pluck1440 twitching1478 twitch?1523 tuck1648 twang1721 twiga1800 twerk1820 yank1888 1888 A. C. Gunter Mr. Potter viii. 100 Her brother giving her a masculine yank [from the gondola], and jumping her upon the steps. 1906 N.Y. Globe 20 Aug. 6 Here is a fantastic proposition from Germany, which takes one back with an unpleasant yank into the middle ages. 1913 M. Roberts Salt of Sea xviii. 447 He gave the twine a yank. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online December 2021). Yankn.²adj. Brit. /jaŋk/, U.S. /jæŋk/ Etymology: Shortened < Yankee n. and adj. colloquial. 1. = Yankee n. and adj. ΘΚΠ the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of America > native or inhabitant of North America > native or inhabitant of U.S.A. > [noun] > parts of New Englander1637 bayman1641 New English1647 Novangle1650 Novanglian1752 Yankee1765 cracker1766 Yank?1778 bushwhacker1809 tuckahoe1816 southerner1817 Yengees1819 muskrat1823 blue belly1827 half horse and half alligator1828 Southron1828 northerner1831 westerner1835 Northman1836 Easterner1838 Far-Wester1843 southwesterner1845 western1846 sand-hiller1848 Vineyarder1851 mountain boomer1859 Far Westerner1862 blue-nosed Yankee1866 Appalachian1888 sloper1892 Ozarkian1893 rebel1895 reb1897 Middle Westerner1899 hillbilly1900 Midwesterner1916 Ozarker1920 Geechee1926 Middle American1944 upstater1944 Mid-American1959 ?1778 Conquerors 14 Give me five hundred brave and chosen men, I'll drive the Yanks from north to south again. 1834 R. H. Froude in Newman's Lett. (1891) II. 77 The Yank edition of the ‘Christian Year’. 1872 M. S. De Vere Americanisms 23 During the war the Yanks became the universal designation of Federal soldiers in the Confederacy, even as they were called Rebs—not Rebels—by Northern men. 1886 All Year Round 14 Aug. 35 As clever at a trick as a Yank. 2. An American car. ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > powered vehicle > motor car > [noun] > American car rubber1945 Yank1959 1959 Listener 4 June 982/1 The young labourer..will invest his cash in buying a car ‘on the 'ire’—not a modest second-hand British product but a ‘big Yank’. 1977 Hot Car Oct. 11/3 It's not raunchy like a yank but it sure is clean and ripe for customising. Compounds ˈYankland n. the land of the Yankees, America.Apparently an isolated use. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > named regions of earth > America > North America > [noun] > United States states1776 United States1776 Yankee-land1803 God's own country1807 U.S.1834 Yankland1834 yankeedoodledom1845 Yankeedom1851 the land of the free1884 land of opportunity1948 U.S. of A.1973 1834 R. H. Froude in Newman's Lett. (1891) II. 37 When I shall go to Yankland I do not know. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online December 2021). yankv. Brit. /jaŋk/, U.S. /jæŋk/ Etymology: Origin unknown. colloquial (originally dialect and U.S.) 1. a. transitive. To pull with a sudden vigorous movement; to jerk or twitch vigorously. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > impelling or driving > pushing and pulling > push and pull [verb (transitive)] > pull > suddenly or sharply twickeOE plitchOE to-twitchc1175 twitchc1330 tricec1386 tita1400 pluckc1400 ramp1567 snatch1590 pook1633 squitch1680 twig1755 shrug1807 yank1848 1848 J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms To Yank, to twitch or jerk powerfully; a term used in New England. 1854 Spirit of the Times (N.Y.) in R. H. Thornton Amer. Gloss. (1912) Afore you could say Sam Patch, them hogs were yanked aout of the lot, kilt and scraped. 1874 J. W. Long Amer. Wild-fowl Shooting viii. 143 How angry it has made me to have a nervous know-nothing catch me by the arm and yank me down, for fear a duck that he happened to catch sight of half a mile off would see me and take alarm. 1902 Sat. Rev. 11 Jan. 39 Yanking up fence-posts that were wanted in a hurry. 1950 R. Macaulay World my Wilderness xii. 102 His companion, a younger man with less of the Gael in his aspect and speech, jumped down into the copse,..and yanked her to her feet. 1964 F. Chichester Lonely Sea & Sky xii. 129 I kept the seaplane on the surface, planing until I thought it was going as fast as it could, when I yanked the stick back hard, to pull her off suddenly. 1966 Listener 14 Apr. 534/1 Any incident, from three youths yanking a cigarette machine off a wall to the mods' and rockers' riots, qualifies as ‘gang delinquency’. 1968 B. Hines Kestrel for Knave 57 Crossley grabbed a boy by the arm and began to yank him into the open. 1977 C. McCullough Thorn Birds i. ii. 35 Fee's muscular arm yanked the brush ruthlessly through knots and tangles until Meggie's eyes watered. 1983 Austral. Personal Computer Aug. 62/1 If you want the disks back..you cannot just yank them out. absolute.1867 Visit to Nantucket (Schele de Vere 649) He yanked and yanked, but the sapling wouldn't come, and thar he was caught in his own trap.1884 Bath Herald 11 Oct. 6/2 When a woman has a new pair of shoes sent home she..never shoves her toes into them, and yanks and hauls until she is red in the face. b. transferred. ΚΠ 1876 W. Besant & J. Rice Golden Butterfly II. xiii. 209 Yank them both to bed. 1883 E. W. Nye Baled Hay 64 Which the poet seems competent to yank loose from the history of the savage. 1896 G. B. Shaw Let. 7 Dec. in E. Terry & G. B. Shaw Corr. (1931) 139 Hearing that Janet..had no refuge but the Solferino, she promptly went to that haunt, yanked Janet..out of it,..and delivered her punctually..for the performance. 1901 F. Hume Golden Wang-ho xiii I'd have yanked Jinfou to the police-station straight away. 1902 W. N. Harben Abner Daniel xxxiii. 279 I don't think what you did to yank Wilson into line was nigh as bad. 1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. xiv. [Oxen of the Sun] 406 Alexander J. Christ Dowie, that's yanked to glory most half this planet from 'Frisco Beach to Vladivostok. 1948 Sunday Pictorial 18 July 16/6 In the end attendants had to dive in and yank them out. 1977 J. I. M. Stewart Madonna of Astrolabe xiv. 197 I had to yank him out of Oxford—a shocking place, if Cambridge is anything to go by. c. To withdraw (a theatrical show, an advertisement, etc.); to cancel. U.S. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > inaction > not doing > abstaining or refraining from action > abstain or refrain from (action) [verb (transitive)] > cancel a projected action to call off1620 scrub1828 yank1940 bag1962 1940 Amer. Speech 15 205/1 Yank, to withdraw, usually because of poor attendance. 1976 Time 27 Sept. 65/1 The paper..ticked off 24 local real estate advertisers with a dispiriting account of development along a local lake; they have since yanked their ads. 1978 Chicago June 12/1 The Tribune flung up more flak for Greene in ads on TV and at the top of page one (it yanked an Arts & Fun ad that repeated the ‘prostitute’ column). 2. intransitive. To pull or jerk vigorously; figurative to be vigorously active. Usually const. at. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > impelling or driving > pushing and pulling > push and pull [verb (intransitive)] > pull > sharply twitchc1300 pluck?a1430 twanga1678 yank1822 pull1826 the world > action or operation > manner of action > vigour or energy > act or do vigorously [verb (intransitive)] twig1573 to go at ——1675 to go it1794 to come it1796 to lay it on thick1806 to blaze away1826 bushwhack1837 steam1842 split1844 rustle1882 to work like a demon1884 yank1888 go-at-it1904 to go somea1911 to put a jerk in it1919 to go (also do) one's (also a) dinger1923 to work (etc.) one's ass off1924 to go to town1933 to gie (or give) it laldy1974 1822 H. Ainslie Pilgrimage to Land of Burns 1 They went not forth like gaugers, A yanking on their cloots. 1888 Cassell's Encycl. Dict. VII. (at cited word) She yanked on at the work. 1906 ‘O. Henry’ in Munsey's Mag. Aug. 556/2 (1961) ix. 131 The drawer stuck, and he yanked at it savagely. 1912 J. Masefield Dauber iii. ii The staysails flogged, the tackle yanked and shook. 1957 J. Kerouac On the Road i. ix. 55 I yanked at the window; it was nailed. 1977 C. McCullough Thorn Birds i. 8 She..began to comb Agnes's hair... She was yanking inexpertly at a large knot. 1981 Sunday Express 19 July (Colour Suppl.) /2 Suddenly Sally/Julie yanks at the neck~line of her dress. Derivatives ˈyanking adj. (a) active, ‘pushing’ (Scottish); (b) jerking, twitching. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > manner of action > vigour or energy > [adjective] > energetic or enterprising adventurousc1330 emprising1584 enterprising1601 spirited1601 yanking1823 go-ahead1829 go-aheadative1836 go-aheadish1851 fore-reaching1864 get-up-and-get1874 rustling1877 outpushing1884 thrustful1909 go-getting1912 push-and-go1916 can-do1926 go-go-go1954 the world > movement > impelling or driving > pushing and pulling > [adjective] > relating to or used in pulling > pulling suddenly or sharply yanking1823 twigging1864 1823 W. Scott St. Ronan's Well I. ii. 35 I canna bide their yanking way of knapping English at every word. 1876 A. D. Whitney Sights & Insights xxix Poor Emery Ann had had a yanking old horse, and a wretchedly uncomfortable saddle. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.¹1818n.²adj.?1778v.1822
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yankn.1

Yankn.2adj.

Compounds

yankv.

Derivatives

yankn.¹

Yankn.²adj.