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.
yodeller
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a word derived from
yodel.
Example Sentences
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As a child, she was a champion yodeller, and sang the national anthem at the 2002 Winter Olympics - but it was her songwriting that really caught people's attention.
From BBC ● Apr. 5, 2024
So they could be told, for example, that the performer is either a guitarist, ventriloquist, yodeller, opera singer or carnival dancer - but they have to figure out which.
From BBC ● Apr. 9, 2021
The course will be led by Nadja Räss, a prize-winning Swiss yodeller with her own academy in Zurich.
From BBC ● Jan. 30, 2018
We're sandwiched between the Swedish yodeller and the Romanian vampire.
From The Guardian ● May 17, 2013
Country music's greatest yodeller, Rogers recorded no less than 11 lonesome Blue Yodel songs before dying of TB in 1933.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 14, 2011
