Bump into nasty Yankee apparently (9)

I believe the answer is:

evidently

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'apparently' is the definition.
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I don't understand the rest of the clue.

(Other definitions for evidently that I've seen before include "it would seem" , "In an obvious manner" , "Apparently or obviously" , "Without question" , "Obviously, clearly" .)

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