Not Texas slang, but I’d be willing to bet it’s confined to Southern slang.

I was born and raised in Alabama.

When I was a little girl, my grandmother used to say, “Give me a Yankee dime.”

As I grew older, I forgot all about the phrase until she was dying. A man visiting her in the hospital leaned over her bed and said, “Give me a Yankee dime.”

Memories flooded my soul.

I now say the same words to my own granddaughter.

“Give me a Yankee dime.”

12/o3/1907
I am 81 and my mother would tell one of us 9 children she would give us a “yankee dime if we would do something for her. I ask my for a yankee dime and she did not know what I wanted. We lived in Nashville TN.
Herman Tucker

Another Alabama girl.
 
My father would ask for a favor (“bring me a Coke, and I’ll give you a yankee dime”).
 
I consistently “fell” for it until I was about nine, when I began to value kisses more than lucre.

well I like it and think it is cute—I am new to Texas and I am going to start using it to revive it again.
Thanks Guys!

man, I live in Georgia and I am only in my teens and I use that all the time. When I was younger my dad always asked me to do stuff and when I said I wouldn’t do it he always asked, “Would you do it for a yankee dime?”
I use to think everyone knew what it was- but I found out when I got to highschool that only a few people knew what it was! So now I say it to tease people.

The love of my life, whom I hadn’t talked to or seen since I was 17 and whom I have found again now that we are in our 40’s, recently offered me a yankee dime. We are both from south Arkansas but I had never heard of this and had to google it because he was keeping it a mystery.  I can’t wait to collect from him!
by suz357

I grew up hearing the term “Yankee dime,” and learned its meaning in the fifth grade in Siloam Springs, Arkansas, when a girl asked me for a bite of peaches on my lunchroom tray and kissed me on the cheek.

If you have not heard the marvelous song, “Yankee Dime,” by Effron White, you are missing a treat.  The first line goes:  “She said she’t give me a Yankee Dime if I would give her a real good time…”  I hadn’t thought of the term in years until I heard that song…

My dad was from Alabama. He used to ask us girls for yankee dimes all the time. We quickly learned that these were kisses!

After my dad passed away, I would find dimes in the strangest places. Bottom a grocery bag, under a notebook, in the middle of the garage, and often one would drop out of my purse (not so unusual).  When my son played the basketball championship, I found a dime in the bleachers!

After my friend’s mother died, my friend found a dime on the sidewalk. She called to tell me my dad had “stopped by.”  I said, no - I know that that is! Your mom is having cofee with my dad and said - boy I sure wish I could let my daughter know I’m thinking of her, and dad said, Hey I know how to do that! and BAM, there’s a dime!!

My family and friends cherish these and in the 13 years since my dad passed, I’ve gotten quite a collection.  It always brings a smile to my face, and sometimes a tear.  (sure loved my daddy ... miss him all the time)

Georgia here…

I am 24 years old and I just heard it today. I’m really not sure if my grandmother said it or not. She said a lot of other stuff. My girlfriend told me that if I brought her breakfast, she would give me a “yankee dime”. I thought it was a cute. <3