- a variation of yodel.
yodle
Americanverb (used with or without object)
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"Maybe it's C'nelius's yodle; he's been listening for it for a solid week."
From John March, Southerner by George W. Cable
Far and wide I heard question and answer, and a lingering yodle such as the Swiss boys make on the mountains.
From The House Under the Sea A Romance by Sir Max Pemberton
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
Long, straight, or curling rows of ploughers passed by with steaming, struggling mules, with whips snapping and the yodle of workers or the sharp guttural growl of overseers as a constant accompaniment.
From The Quest of the Silver Fleece A Novel by W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois
"Some more champagne, madame, for the three musketeers," sang Randolph in a sort of operatic yodle.
From One Man's Initiation—1917 by John Dos Passos
"We concentrated and were organised from the start," yodled the manager whom the Swiss now worship as Gottmar.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 17, 2010
"Zora," he yodled, and she waved her apron.
From The Quest of the Silver Fleece A Novel by W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois
Behind him the yard of brass yodled in a manner quite as lordly as before.
From The Paliser case by Edgar Saltus
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 F. Scott (Francis Scott) Fitzgerald
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 Hildegard G. (Hildegard Gertrude) Frey
The lofty, elevated plains were covered with scanty patches of grain and potatoes, and the boys tended their goats on the grassy slopes, sometimes trilling or yodling an Alpine melody.
From Views a-foot by Bayard Taylor
Sahwah curved her hands around her mouth and set forth a long, yodling hail, which was answered in kind by the paddlers.
From The Camp Fire Girls in the Maine Woods Or, The Winnebagos Go Camping by Hildegard G. (Hildegard Gertrude) Frey
From a mighty cliff overhanging the road, about a hundred feet distant, came a long yodling call, peculiar to the Tyrol, sung in a superb ringing baritone.
From Ilka on the Hill-Top and Other Stories by Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen
Then he shouted with yodling and singing, 'Hurrah!
From Gaudeamus! Humorous Poems by Joseph Victor von Scheffel
If, in Poe, there is much "rant and rococo," Whitman is mostly yawping and yodling.
From Ivory Apes and Peacocks by James Huneker
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