Yankee Doodle Hear it!

Yankee Doodle definition

☆ Yankee Doodle

an early American song with several versions of humorous verses, popular during the Revolutionary War

Etymology: < Yankee + (?) tootle, in reference to sound made in tonguing a flute or fife, for which the tune was apparently first written

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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