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noun
1.
(italics) a song with a melody of apparent British origin, popular with American troops during the Revolutionary War.
2.
a Yankee.
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| Yankee Doodle | |
| —n | |
| 1. | an American song, popularly regarded as a characteristically national melody |
| 2. | another name for Yankee |
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Word Origin & History
Yankee Doodle
popular tune of the Amer. Revolution, apparently written c.1755 by British Army surgeon Dr. Richard Schuckburgh while campaigning with Amherst's force in upper New York during the French and Indian War. The original verses mocked the colonial troops serving alongside the regulars, and the Doodle element
EXPANDjust may have been, or hinted at, the 18c. slang term for "penis." The song naturally was popular with British troops in the colonies, but after the colonials began to win skirmishes with them in 1775, they took the tune as a patriotic prize and re-worked the lyrics. The current version seems to have been written in 1776 by Edward Bangs, a Harvard sophomore who also was a Minuteman.
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