yankee-doodle(n = noun.person) yank, yankee - an American (especially to non-Americans);
is a kind of american

1.  The name of a tune adopted popularly as one of the national airs of the United States. [1913 Webster]

2.  Humorously, a Yankee. [1913 Webster]
"We might have withheld our political noodles
From knocking their heads against hot Yankee-Doodles." [1913 Webster]