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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



... as the universe is told, Brought forth his Tariff Bill so neat and handy, O! And true patriots, everyone thought the business splendid fun, With their music playing Yankee-doodle dandy, O! Yankee-doodle, Yankee-doodle dandy. O! The patriots came running, and admired MCKINLEY's cunning, In the interests of ...
— Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 99, October 18, 1890 • Various
... caught sight of them now and then, and named them the "Yankee-Doodle Twins." When the twins were three years old, their molting season brought a remarkable change to them. The dark feathers of their heads and necks and tails dropped out, and in their places white feathers grew, so that by this time they looked like their own father and mother, who are what ...
— Bird Stories • Edith M. Patch
... could ride I'd back him till all was blue," replied the old man. "No proposition in a hoss's skin that ever come out of Yankee-doodle-land could see the ...
— Boy Woodburn - A Story of the Sussex Downs • Alfred Ollivant
... most Yankee-Doodle-Dandy manner, collapsing inward at his extremely thin waistline, arms akimbo, his step designed to be a mincing one, and his voice as soprano as ...
— The Vertical City • Fannie Hurst
... 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


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