Scotch Yankee Obs.
See quotes.
- 1821  (1955)  . . . 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].