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yodel

[ yohd-l ]

verb (used with or without object)

, yo·deled, yo·del·ing, or (especially British) yo·delled, yo·del·ling.
  1. to sing with frequent changes from the ordinary voice to falsetto and back again, in the manner of Swiss and Tyrolean mountaineers.
  2. to call or shout in a similar fashion.


noun

  1. a song, refrain, etc., so sung.
  2. a call or shout so uttered.

yodel

/ ˈjəʊdəl /

noun

  1. an effect produced in singing by an abrupt change of register from the chest voice to falsetto, esp in popular folk songs of the Swiss Alps
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


verb

  1. to sing (a song) in which a yodel is used
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • ˈyodeller, noun
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Other Words From

  • yodel·er noun
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Word History and Origins

Origin of yodel1

First recorded in 1835–40, from southern German dialect jodeln, from jo, an exclamation
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Word History and Origins

Origin of yodel1

C19: from German jodeln, of imitative origin
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Example Sentences

Because we all grow up singing, and we learn tricks that we like that this singer did or that singer did — you know, a yodel here, a break there.

In a minute he'll yodel like the singing cowboys in the movies he loved so much as a kid.

I emailed yodel to explain an got a automated reply saying my parcel has been delivered and signed for?

From far above came the notes of a merry song; occasionally there was heard a long, echoing yodel, then more singing.

Jimmie gave another yodel, louder and longer than the first.

Away in the distance coyotes lifted their yodel, half jocular, half mournful, as a maudlin drunkard sings dolefully a merry tune.

Then I discovered that there is a trill, a tiny grace note or yodel, at the end of his second note.

Jane Abbott turned and looked down, amazed that the mountain girl should have the effrontery to yodel to her.

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