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
"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
She walked up to the footlights and began to yodle softly.
From Ilka on the Hill-Top and Other Stories by Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen
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
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
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
Then he shouted with yodling and singing, 'Hurrah!
From Gaudeamus! Humorous Poems by Joseph Victor von Scheffel
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 James Huneker
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
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 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
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