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Y is for Yankee notions

Submitted by david d on Fri, 12/05/2008 - 20:47

Yankee notions: things made in New England, made widely known by traveling Yankee peddlers.

  • 1825: The tallow, corn, cotton, hams, hides, and so forths, which we had got in exchange for a load of Yankee notions. John Neal, Brother Jonathan, II, p.298
  • 1826: Pit-coal indigo, wooden nutmegs, straw baskets, and Yankee notions. T. Flint, Recollections, p.33
  • 1828: People abroad have no idea of what is meant here by Yankee notions, and are liable therefore to mistake our wooden ware for intellectual ware. Yankee, Portland, Maine, January 1
  • 1843: Occasionally you will see some honest country Jonathan, with his wagon full of Yankee notions. Yale Literary Magazine, IX, p.44
  • 1889: The camps were full of pedlers of Yankee notions, which soldiers are supposed to stand in need of. John D. Billings, Hard Tack and Coffee, p.213
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