In the Greater Boston area it roughly translates to “a degenerate, filthy fuck”
Edit: that might actually be the same for the red sections on the map, just for different reasons
Really it’s their team that should have been named the Yankees. And it would have paired well with the Patriots.
I don’t know what to make of the “pie for breakfast” reference. Anyone?
I think it’s a native new englander local stereotype about yankees eating pie for breakfast; implying that they eat too much.
Apple pie with (cheddar) cheese apparently was a New England staple in the 17th century, but I don’t know if anyone had it for breakfast.
A very old New Englander once to my girlfriend & me that we went together “like pie with cheese.” We had idea what to make of it.
I’ve had a modern version using brie and I became a fan.
Addendum for Japan: Yankee ヤンキー more commonly refers to a (juvenile) delinquent
Same same.
‘Seppo’
That’s fine among limeys, but I don’t think anyone else recognizes it.
Actually, that’s Australian slang. Or at least, we use it too.
Though mostly if we’re being impolite it’s just “yank”.
when am i supposed to eat my pie leftovers?
oh who am i kidding there are never pie leftovers. Jungkook save us from this nightmare so we don’t have to endure this mockery much longer
I’m in the lavender zone.
I took myself out of the lavender but never the lavender out of me.
Same. The word Yankee means the following to me, in order of most to least relevant:
- A member of the New York Yankees.
- A derogatory term that people from the Bible Belt who still haven’t accepted the result of the American Civil War use for people who live north of the Mason-Dixon Line.
- A more neutral (maybe slightly derogatory?) term that people from the UK use for all Americans, regardless of where they live in the US.
I have never heard someone refer to a New Englander as a Yankee.
Jan Kees
I would of said Derek Jeter.
Jan-Kees -> Yankee
you don’t need the tilde though, yanki is stressed on the yan part
Oh yeah. I’ve seen it written this way before and just aped it.
I’ve been in about half the states and have never heard anyone use Yankee except in reference to history. It always meant the “north” during the civil war. Which today would largely mean New England
i’m partial to USian
