CHRIS ROBERTS (Author, "Heavy Words Lightly Thrown"): Well, we needn't all out about it. He's the author of "Heavy Words Lightly Thrown." It's a collection of nursery rhyme history, something he started collecting while giving walking tours of London.Ĭhris, today you have come prepared I understand to talk about a touchy subject for a Brit and an American, "Yankee Doodle." Joining us now from our London bureau with another reason behind the rhyme is librarian Chris Roberts. Perceval.This is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED from NPR News.
Come, don't go to call names: am I? vhy my vife, and I am your master. Why doodle! jackanapes! harkee, who am I? 1764, Samuel Foote, The Mayor of Garrett, W.
( obsolete ) A fool, a simpleton, a mindless person.The modern meaning emerged in the 1930s either from this meaning or from the verb "to dawdle", which since the seventeenth century has had the meaning of wasting time or being lazy. This is also the origin of the early eighteenth century verb to doodle, meaning "to swindle or to make a fool of". The meaning "fool, simpleton" is intended in the song title "Yankee Doodle", originally sung by British colonial troops prior to the American Revolutionary War. American English dude may be a derivation of doodle. German variants of the etymon include Dudeltopf, Dudentopf, Dudenkopf, Dude and Dödel. The word doodle first appeared in the early 17th century to mean a fool or simpleton. Compare also German dudeln ( “ to play (the bagpipe) ” ). Originally dialectal, from Low German dudeltopf, dudeldopp ( “ simpleton ” ).
( General American ) IPA ( key): /ˈdud(ə)l/.( Received Pronunciation ) IPA ( key): /ˈduːdl̩/.
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