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Yankee-Doodle   /jˈæŋki-dˈudəl/   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."





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"Yankee-doodle" Quotes from Famous Books



... and irritatin' I was from top to toe; and blest if Master Tom hadn't got upon the window-sill, bust open that there piece of brown paper I had pasted over the broken pane, I had, and let hisself in Yankee-doodle fashion, and left me ...
— The Bed-Book of Happiness • Harold Begbie
... "dark blue sea." This hope did not last long; for this lover of nature turned round to Sir Henry, and asked him in a nasal twang, if he preferred Cooper's or Mr. Scott's novels? Delme was not naturally a rude man, but as he turned away, he hummed something very like Yankee-doodle. ...
— A Love Story • A Bushman


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