2006-08-01 02:24:46 · 25 answers · asked by Kain 5 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
I think his hat...
'stuck a feather in his HAT and called it macaroni'
2006-08-01 02:27:21 · answer #1 · answered by aavogelsang1202 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Some believe that this was one of the first alternative lyrics by the British army during the revolutionary war. Macaroni was a very nice club in London at the time, London being the town that the Yankee came to. The joke being that the Yankees are stupid enough to believe that a feather in the hat is sufficiently spiffy to gain entry to Macaroni.
The word macaroni also meant "dandy", or "fop", or "dude" at the time.
2006-08-01 09:33:54 · answer #2 · answered by Love2Sew 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A "macaroni", in mid-18th-century England, was a fashionable fellow. It was a joke that the Yankees were naive enough to believe that putting a feather in the hat made them fashionable.
2006-08-01 09:35:00 · answer #3 · answered by momof9 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The answer is: The Feather
Yankee "Doodle" was a pejorative term. A "doodle" was like a "doofus".
So the rhyme is insulting a Yankee idiot who think that a feather is macaroni.
2006-08-01 09:32:08 · answer #4 · answered by Ciliciam 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i dont really know but he probably name the feather macaroni
bc wouldent he of all ready had a name for ahis horse
towns have names
and well actually mabey he named his hat and the feather maccaroni bc now the feather ould be part of the hat
well i am confusing myself
its kinda like wich was first the chicken or the egg
lol
emma
2006-08-01 09:30:01 · answer #5 · answered by waz with that 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's the comination of the feather and the hat. "Macaroni" described an 18th century fashion of dressing too outrageously.
2006-08-01 09:30:51 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hmmm...I'm pretty sure this exact question was asked yesterday, but...oh, well. It is believed that he called the combination of both the hat and the feather Macaroni.
2006-08-01 09:28:42 · answer #7 · answered by They call me ... Trixie. 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Feather
2006-08-01 09:27:52 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
He named the hat as macaroni!
2006-08-01 09:39:01 · answer #9 · answered by akar 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That's a tricky question, I would think it's the combination of the feather and the hat.
2006-08-01 09:29:54 · answer #10 · answered by cajungurl 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"Macaroni" in this sense means "fancy" (after the famous Macaroni Club in London) . . . the song is making fun of the rustic Yankee, who thinks he's all fancied up because he put a feather in his hat.
2006-08-01 09:30:44 · answer #11 · answered by BigD 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋