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yo⋅dle

[yohd-l] verb (used with object), verb (used without object), -dled, -dling, noun

yo⋅del

[yohd-l] verb, -deled, -del⋅ing, or (especially British) -delled, -del⋅ling, noun
–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.
Also, yodle.


Origin:
1865–70; < G jodeln


yo⋅del⋅er, noun
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Word Origin & History

yodel 
1827, from Ger. jodeln, from dial. Ger. jo, an exclamation of joy, of imitative origin.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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