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Definition of yankeeism : A Yankee idiom, word, custom, or the like.

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• His master had settled at New York, and there Mesty had learned English, if it could be so called: the fact is, that all the emigrant labourers at New York being Irishmen, he had learned English with the strong brogue and peculiar phraseology of the sister kingdom dashed with a little Yankeeism. - "Mr. Midshipman Easy", Captain Frederick Marryat.