yodle
Americanverb (used with or without object)
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"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
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
She walked up to the footlights and began to yodle softly.
From Ilka on the Hill-Top and Other Stories by Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen
“Now, Mr. Leland, sing us that German song you’re always so jolly with—lodle yodle tol de rol de rol!”
From Memoirs by Charles Godfrey Leland
"We concentrated and were organised from the start," yodled the manager whom the Swiss now worship as Gottmar.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 17, 2010
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
"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
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
Behind him the yard of brass yodled in a manner quite as lordly as before.
From The Paliser case by Edgar Saltus
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 Cale Young Rice
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
And from the sleeping dale there arose the yodling of a man driving his cattle home.
From Bob, Son of Battle by Alfred Ollivant
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
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
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