to yodel

Examples

• All

• Granny Bones cupped her plump hands to her mouth and let loose a long, eerie, yodeling cry.

  Fiction book (1994)

• But the judges decided that nobody could yodel quite like Davy.

  Fiction book (2002)

• And he loved to yodel.

  Another You (1991)

• Play that song where you yodel.

  Straight Time (1978)

• I just love yodeling into it.

  Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot (2018)

• Even Flapjack Pete, the cook, could yodel a little.

  Fiction book (2002)

• Davy practiced yodeling all the time.

  Fiction book (2002)

• We would hike, yodel, write poetry, play gin rummy; together we would stand atop a peak and embrace the world.

  Fiction book (1997)

• Floyd could don lederhosen and go yodeling in the Alps, and he would be left alone.

  Blog text (13)

• Coming down the steep, slick switchback, the air seems to be swarming with static electricity, and my father is yodeling.

  Fiction book (2002)

Synonyms

S

to sing

vsto yodel

∞ 1.0

To make musical sounds with your voice

is a narrow singing style alternating chest voice and falsetto

W

to warble

vsto yodel

7 7.8

To sing or play musical notes that move up and down quickly

is a specific technique switching between normal voice and high falsetto

Surface Forms

Etymology