- a variation of yodel.
yodle
Americanverb (used with or without object)
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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
"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
Come And yodle to the Court at Baden.
From L'Aiglon by Rostand, Edmond
In this 'The Ice Maiden' excels; Swiss life is depicted as though we were listening to yodle songs on the mountains, and felt the superstitions of the icy winter nights taking hold of our souls.
From Continental Monthly, Vol. III, No IV, April 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various
She walked up to the footlights and began to yodle softly.
From Ilka on the Hill-Top and Other Stories by Boyesen, Hjalmar Hjorth
"We concentrated and were organised from the start," yodled the manager whom the Swiss now worship as Gottmar.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 17, 2010
Behind him the yard of brass yodled in a manner quite as lordly as before.
From The Paliser case by Saltus, Edgar
"Zora," he yodled, and she waved her apron.
From The Quest of the Silver Fleece A Novel by Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt)
The prisoners clog-danced and cheered and yodled and wrestled with one another in a sudden uprush of animal spirits.
From Tales of the Jazz Age by Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott)
Besides waving the middy, both girls called and yodled until they were hoarse.
From The Camp Fire Girls in the Maine Woods Or, The Winnebagos Go Camping by Frey, Hildegard G. (Hildegard Gertrude)
The yodling was much praised, especially that of a good-looking young woman and her escort, a very tall man of cadaverous aspect, his shanks like the wooden stilts of the shepherds on the Bordeaux Landes.
From Visionaries by Huneker, James
I'm tramping thro the mountains And the wind is yodling to me Yearnings of the glaciers To flow to summer lands.
From Many Gods by Rice, Cale Young
The yodling was part of their business, as was the costume.
From Visionaries by Huneker, James
Three weeks ago, when we were travelling in this region," continued Hahn, determined not to allow his temper to be ruffled, "we heard a most wonderful voice yodling in the mountains.
From Ilka on the Hill-Top and Other Stories by Boyesen, Hjalmar Hjorth
The yodling chorus was a marvel of flute-like modulations.
From McTeague by Norris, Frank
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