Why did Yankee Doodle name the feather in his hat Macaroni?

Answer 1

Not because it looked like little pasta thingys, but because that was a word to describe something that was fancy back then!

A macaroni, in mid-18th-century England, was a fashionable fellow who dressed and even spoke in an outlandishly affected manner. The term pejoratively referred to a person who exceeded the ordinary bounds of fashion in terms of clothes, fastidious eating and gambling. Like a practitioner of macaronic verse, which mixed together English and Latin to comic effect, he mixed Continental affectations with his English nature, laying himself open to satire.

Young men who had been to Italy on the Grand Tour adopted the Italian word maccherone — a boorish fool in Italian — and said that anything that was fashionable or à la mode was 'very macaroni'. Horace Walpole wrote to a friend in 1764 of "the Macaroni Club, which is composed of all the traveled young men who wear long curls and spying-glasses." The "club" was not a formal one: the expression was particularly used to characterize fops who dressed in high fashion with stripes and tall, powdered wigs with a little hat on top which was so high that it could only be removed on the point of a sword. Macaronis combined the enjoyment of wine, sex and song with effeminacy of dress. They are a precursor to the dandy and the metrosexual.

Translation to today's world: He put an 'Elton John' in in hat!

Answer 2

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Answer 3

British with fancy hats were known as Macaronis.

Answer 4

because that was the name of the bird he pulled the feather off of.
now the question is, why is the bird that yankee doodle pulled the feather off of called macaroni?

Answer 5

At the time, the word Macaroni was slang for something cool or fashionable. Seriously.

Answer 6

It is because he thought it was fashion, that is what macaroni means, because he did that to put fashion, and so how the song goes is that the fashion that the enemy is wearing is not good, it isnt of fashion.

Answer 7

macaroni rymes with pony!!!

Answer 8

Because that is the only thing he could think of that rhymed with pony. :)

Answer 9

He was actually Italian.

Answer 10

not sure why Yankee did that