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As a term Doodle first appeared in the early seventeenth century, and is thought to derive from the Low German dudel, meaning "fool" or "simpleton". The Macaroni wig was an extreme fashion in the 1770s and became contemporary slang for foppishness. The implication of the verse was therefore probably that the Yankees were so unsophisticated that they thought simply sticking a feather in a cap would make them the height of fashion.

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maybe because macaroni rhymes with pony-- simple, you don't have to be a doodling yank to figure that out!

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or maybe he was still drunk from the 4th.of july party........

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