English Dictionary: Yank | by the DICT Development Group |
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Yang \Yang\, n. [Of imitative origin.] The cry of the wild goose; a honk. | |
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Yang \Yang\, v. i. To make the cry of the wild goose. | |
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Yank \Yank\, n. [Cf. Scot. yank a sudden and severe blow.] A jerk or twitch. [Colloq. U. S.] | |
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Yank \Yank\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Yanked}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Yanking}.] To twitch; to jerk. [Colloq. U. S.] | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Yank \Yank\, n. An abbreviation of {Yankee}. [Slang] | |
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Yankee \Yan"kee\, n. [Commonly considered to be a corrupt pronunciation of the word English, or of the French word Anglais, by the native Indians of America. According to Thierry, a corruption of Jankin, a diminutive of John, and a nickname given to the English colonists of Connecticut by the Dutch settlers of New York. Dr. W. Gordon ([bd]Hist. of the Amer. War,[b8] ed, 1789, vol. i., pp. 324, 325) says it was a favorite cant word in Cambridge, Mass., as early as 1713, and that it meant excellent; as, a yankee good horse, yankee good cider, etc. Cf. Scot yankie a sharp, clever, and rather bold woman, and Prov. E. bow-yankees a kind of leggins worn by agricultural laborers.] A nickname for a native or citizen of New England, especially one descended from old New England stock; by extension, an inhabitant of the Northern States as distinguished from a Southerner; also, applied sometimes by foreigners to any inhabitant of the United States. From meanness first this Portsmouth Yankey rose, And still to meanness all his conduct flows. --Oppression, A poem by an American (Boston, 1765). | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Yankee \Yan"kee\, a. Of or pertaining to a Yankee; characteristic of the Yankees. The alertness of the Yankee aspect. --Hawthorne. {Yankee clover}. (Bot.) See {Japan clover}, under {Japan}. | |
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Yaw \Yaw\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Yawed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Yawing}.] [Cf. {Yew}, v. i.] To rise in blisters, breaking in white froth, as cane juice in the clarifiers in sugar works. | |
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Ynough \Y*nough"\, Ynow \Y*now"\, a. [See {Enough}.] Enough. [Obs.] --Chaucer. | |
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Young \Young\ (y[ucr]ng), a. [Compar. {Younger} (y[ucr][nsm]"g[etil]r); superl. {Youngest} (-g[ecr]st).] [OE. yung, yong, [yogh]ong, [yogh]ung, AS. geong; akin to OFries. iung, iong, D. joing, OS., OHG., & G. jung, Icel. ungr, Sw. & Dan. ung, Goth. juggs, Lith. jaunas, Russ. iunuii, L. juvencus, juvenis, Skr. juva[cced]a, juvan. [root]281. Cf. {Junior}, {Juniper}, {Juvenile}, {Younker}, {Youth}.] 1. Not long born; still in the first part of life; not yet arrived at adolescence, maturity, or age; not old; juvenile; -- said of animals; as, a young child; a young man; a young fawn. For he so young and tender was of age. --Chaucer. [bd]Whom the gods love, die young,[b8] has been too long carelessly said; . . . whom the gods love, live young forever. --Mrs. H. H. Jackson. 2. Being in the first part, pr period, of growth; as, a young plant; a young tree. While the fears of the people were young. --De Foe. 3. Having little experience; inexperienced; unpracticed; ignorant; weak. Come, come, elder brother, you are too young in this. --Shak. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Young \Young\, n. The offspring of animals, either a single animal or offspring collectively. [The egg] bursting with kindly rupture, forth disclosed Their callow young. --Milton. {With young}, with child; pregnant. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Yumas \Yu"mas\, n. pl.; sing. {Yuma}. (Ethnol.) A tribe of Indians native of Arizona and the adjacent parts of Mexico and California. They are agricultural, and cultivate corn, wheat, barley, melons, etc. Note: The a wider sense, the term sometimes includes the Mohaves and other allied tribes. | |
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Yunca \Yun"ca\ (y[oomac][nsm]"k[adot]), n. An Indian of a linguistic stock of tribes of the Peruvian coast who had a developed agricultural civilization at the advent of the Spaniards, before which they had been conquered by the Incas. They constructed irrigation canals which are still in use, adorned their buildings with bas-reliefs and frescoes, and were skilled goldsmiths and silversmiths. -- {Yun"can}, a. | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Yancey, TX Zip code(s): 78886 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Yemassee, SC (town, FIPS 79450) Location: 32.69459 N, 80.85326 W Population (1990): 728 (304 housing units) Area: 11.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 29945 | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
yank insert a copy of some saved text at the current position in a document being edited. The term is used in the {Unix} {text editors} {GNU Emacs} and {vi} but "{paste}" is more common elsewhere. [Used elsewhere?] (1998-07-01) |