单词 | yengees |
释义 | Yengeesn. Stated to be a North American Indian corruption of English, applied to the people of New England. (Cf. 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 1819 J. Heckewelder Hist. Indian Nations (1876) iii. 77 When the Yengeese arrived at Machtitschwanne, they looked about everywhere for good spots of land. 1819 J. Heckewelder Hist. Indian Nations (1876) xiii. 143 Yengees. This name they [sc. the Chippeways and some other nations] now exclusively applied to the people of New England... They say they know the Yengees, and can distinguish them by their dress and personal appearance... The proper English they call Saggenash. 1826 J. F. Cooper Last of Mohicans II. xii. 211 ‘What art thou?’ ‘A woman. One of a hated race, if thou wilt—a Yengee.’ 1826 J. F. Cooper Last of Mohicans II. xii. 215 It is a snake—a red-skin in the pay of the Yengeese. 1834 J. G. Whittier Mogg Megone 40 A scalp or twain from the Yengees torn. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.1819 |
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