yodel
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l verb (used with object), verb (used without object)
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
3.
a song, refrain, etc., so sung.
4.
a call or shout so uttered.
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| —n | |
| 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 |
| —vb , -dels, -delling, -delled, -dels, -deling, -deled | |
| 2. | to sing (a song) in which a yodel is used |
| [C19: from German jodeln, of imitative origin] | |
| 'yodeller | |
| —n | |
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Word Origin & History
yodel
1827, from Ger. jodeln, from dial. Ger. jo, an exclamation of joy, of imitative origin.
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Encyclopedia Britannica
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yodel
type of singing in which high falsetto and low chest notes are rapidly alternated; its production is helped by the enunciation of open and closed vowels on the low and high notes of wide intervals. Yodeling is also used as a means of communicating over moderate distances by the inhabitants of mountainous regions. It is associated with the Alpine peoples of Switzerland and the Austrian Tirol. But it is found also in other mountain regions (e.g., in China and the Americas) and among the Pygmies of Africa and the Aboriginal peoples of Australia
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Example sentences
As the beagle boogies through the brush, she begins to bay, a musical yodel of barking.
The only other call that comes close to it for immediate recognition is the yodel and tremolo of the common loon.
In theory, a defendant could be released for so long as he can stand on one leg and yodel, and no longer.
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