yodle
Americanverb (used with or without object)
noun
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She walked up to the footlights and began to yodle softly.
From Ilka on the Hill-Top and Other Stories by Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen
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
Come And yodle to the Court at Baden.
From L'Aiglon by Edmond Rostand
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
“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
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
"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
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
Then he shouted with yodling and singing, 'Hurrah!
From Gaudeamus! Humorous Poems by Joseph Victor von Scheffel
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
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
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
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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