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Scotch Yankee

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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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1821

. . . it is a remarkable circumstance, that, in Upper Canada, the Ne plus ultra of vanity, impudence, and rascality, is thought to be comprised under the epithet Scotch Yankey.

1832

I quite agree with Mr Howison, when he says, "that the ne plus ultra of impudence, rascality, and villainy, is comprehended in the epithet Scotch Yankee." [applied here to Gaelic settlers of N.E. Nova Scotia].