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Yankee dime
Fascinating expression, which is new to me. This site informs me that "a Yankee Dime is a kiss. A peck, really.", and goes on with the following attempts to trace its rootsI tried to find out the...
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Here is an ADS-L thread with 8 posts on this topic:listserv.linguistlist.org
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A Yankee dime is definitely an innocent kiss.When I was a little girl with beautiful curls and older relatives and friends came to visit, they would ask me to come over and give them a great big kiss....
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I also remember it as an expression for an innocent kiss. My mother used it a lot when I was a child in Tennessee.
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