yodle
Americanverb (used with or without object)
noun
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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 Grace Brooks Hill
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
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
Come And yodle to the Court at Baden.
From L'Aiglon by Edmond Rostand
Far off she heard the yodle of the gangs of peons.
From The Quest of the Silver Fleece A Novel by W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois
"We concentrated and were organised from the start," yodled the manager whom the Swiss now worship as Gottmar.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 17, 2010
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
"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
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
Krayne redoubled his arduous training, practised yodling in the forests, danced jigs on the pine-needles, and doubled his allowance of the waters.
From Visionaries by James Huneker
And here are the muleteers, yodling, as they pass by, their ‘Dhome, Dhome, Dhome, O mother, he is come; Hide me, hide me quickly, And say I am not home.’
From The Book of Khalid by Ameen Fares Rihani
Then he shouted with yodling and singing, 'Hurrah!
From Gaudeamus! Humorous Poems by Joseph Victor von Scheffel
The yodling refrain this time was arch, gay—full of mocking laughter and mirth.
From Ilka on the Hill-Top and Other Stories by Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen
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 Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen
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