yodle
Americanverb (used with or without object)
noun
Other Word Forms
- yodler noun
Example Sentences
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She walked up to the footlights and began to yodle softly.
From Ilka on the Hill-Top and Other Stories by Boyesen, Hjalmar Hjorth
“Now, Mr. Leland, sing us that German song you’re always so jolly with—lodle yodle tol de rol de rol!”
From Memoirs by Leland, Charles Godfrey
She would go into the Pinkney yard and yodle.
From The Corner House Girls' Odd Find Where they made it, and What the Strange Discovery led to by Hill, Grace Brooks
"Maybe it's C'nelius's yodle; he's been listening for it for a solid week."
From John March, Southerner by Cable, George W.
"Some more champagne, madame, for the three musketeers," sang Randolph in a sort of operatic yodle.
From One Man's Initiation—1917 by Dos Passos, John
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