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Yodle   Listen
noun
Yodle, Yodel  n.  A song sung by yodeling, as by the Swiss mountaineers.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Yodle" Quotes from Famous Books



... plaintive flute and plays the simple cadences of his people, while his person is completely covered with his fine robe, so that he cannot be recognized by the passer-by. At every pause in the melody he gives his yodel-like love-call, to which the girls respond with their musical, ...
— Indian Child Life • Charles A. Eastman

... making of an opera singer. What a Fricka, Brangaene, Ortrud, Sieglinde, Erda, this clever girl might become! She was musical, she was dramatic in temperament—he let his imagination run away with him. She only sang an Oberbayerische yodel, and, while her voice was not very high, she contrived a falsetto that made her English listener shiver. This yodel seemed to him as thrilling as the "Ho yo to ho!" of Brunnhilde as she rushes over the rocky road to Valhall. La la liriti! La la lirita! Hallali! chirped Roeselein, ...
— Visionaries • James Huneker

... soldiers, marching across the frontiers east, south and west, under their throaty barrage of "Deutschland, Deutschland, Ueber Alles," the derisive giggles completely died out. It immediately became a case of he who laughs first, lives to yodel. ...
— "And they thought we wouldn't fight" • Floyd Gibbons



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