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Yankee-Doodle   Listen
noun
Yankee-Doodle  n.  
1.
The name of a tune adopted popularly as one of the national airs of the United States.
2.
Humorously, a Yankee. "We might have withheld our political noodles From knocking their heads against hot Yankee-Doodles."






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Yankee-Doodle" Quotes from Famous Books



... its proper situation, the order was given to wheel to the left, and march. As this was bringing raw troops, at once, to face their enemy, it is not to be supposed that the manoeuver was executed with their usual accuracy; but as the music struck up the inspiring air of Yankee-doodle, and Richard, accompanied by Mr. Doolittle preceded the troops boldly down the street, Captain Hollister led on, with his head elevated to forty-five degrees, with a little, low cocked hat perched on his crown, carrying a tremendous dragoon sabre at a poise, and trailing at his heels ...
— The Pioneers • James Fenimore Cooper



Words linked to "Yankee-Doodle" :   American, yank



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