单词 | yankeeize |
释义 | > as lemmasˈYankeeize ˈYankeeize v. (transitive) to make Yankeeish, give a Yankee character to. ΘΚΠ the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of America > native or inhabitant of North America > native or inhabitant of U.S.A. > [verb (transitive)] Americanize1686 Yankeeize1864 1864 Guardian 20 Apr. 386 We begin to fear that England is becoming Yankeeised. 1877 Sir F. Elliot in Dowden Corr. Sir H. Taylor 377 The most certain of political tendencies in England is what..I will call the Yankeeising tendency. 1882 H. E. Scudder Noah Webster viii. 289 Hawthorne, Yankeeizing the Greek myths, and finding all Rome but the background for his Puritan maiden, was asserting that new discovery of Europe by America. < as lemmas |
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