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English
Noun
Yengee (plural Yengees or Yengeese)
- (obsolete) Pronunciation spelling of Yankee.
1843, [James Fenimore Cooper], Wyandotté, or The Hutted Knoll. , volume I, Philadelphia, Pa.: Lea and Blanchard, →OCLC, page 117:“It must be admitted, Nick, you are a very literal logician—‘dog won't eat dog,’ is our English saying. Still the Yankee will fight the Yengeese, it would seem. In a word, the Great Father, in England, has raised the hatchet against his American children.”