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Jan Kees
Dutch · 1600s-1700s
"a mocking nickname for Dutch settlers"
a common Dutch nickname ("John Cheese") mockingly applied to Dutch colonists
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Yankee
English · 1700s
"a New Englander"
the English then turned the nickname on New England colonists
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