yankee : Idioms & Phrases

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Yankee clover

  • . (Bot.) See Japan clover, under Japan.
Webster 1913

yankee corn

  • noun corn having kernels with a hard outer layer enclosing the soft endosperm
    flint corn; flint maize; Zea mays indurata.
WordNet

yankee-doodle

  • noun an American (especially to non-Americans)
    Yank; Yankee.
WordNet
Yan`kee-Doo"dle noun
Definitions
  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. Moore.
Webster 1913