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Yankee-Doodle   /jˈæŋki-dˈudəl/   Listen
Yankee-Doodle

noun
1.
An American (especially to non-Americans).  Synonyms: Yank, Yankee.






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"Yankee-doodle" Quotes from Famous Books



... 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

... that evening from the Yankee-Doodle-niggery colony, peopled by citizens who are not 'subjects.' Bishop C. C. Pinnock, absent from his home at Cape Mount, dined with us and told me about the death of an old friend, good Bishop Payne. His successor objects to learning and talking native tongues, and he insists upon teaching ...
— To The Gold Coast for Gold, Vol. II - A Personal Narrative • Richard Francis Burton and Verney Lovett Cameron



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