yodel
verb (used with or without object)
to sing with frequent changes from the ordinary voice to falsetto and back again, in the manner of Swiss and Tyrolean mountaineers.
Used to express actions, events, or states that have not yet occurred but are expected to happen.
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Then he will appear, perhaps, with his wooden dinner-bucket,—he is going off with his grandfather for the day,—and will yodel to the old man as a signal to make haste.
From By The Sea 1887 by Heman White Chaplin