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yodel .
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- verb To
yodel .
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Examples
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Securing the scanty venison if he can, the hunter is off for his hillside burrow, advertising his approach by an exultant jodel of extra nerve-splitting power.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 85, January, 1875 Various
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Familiar as it is to us, it is yet as foreign a music as any Tyrolean jodel or Hungarian czardas.
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The only part of the music that ever so remotely suggests extravagance is the Valkyrie's call; and it, after all, is only a jodel put to sublime uses.
Richard Wagner Runciman, John F 1913
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At last the herd-boys began to jodel over at the neighboring farms, first one, and then several joining in:
Pelle the Conqueror — Volume 01 Martin Andersen Nex�� 1911
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At last the herd-boys began to jodel over at the neighboring farms, first one, and then several joining in:
Pelle the Conqueror — Complete Martin Andersen Nex�� 1911
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The thing will be to get a good one, and a nice, handsome, troubadour-sort of man who can cook, and jodel, and sew, and put up tents, and keep off murderers in mountain passes at night.
The Princess Passes 1901
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Voice in a sort of superhuman jodel, coming, as it seemed to me, from the region of Westminster Bridge.
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The only part of the music that ever so remotely suggests extravagance is the Valkyrie's call; and it, after all, is only a jodel put to sublime uses.
Richard Wagner Composer of Operas John F. Runciman 1891
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Most of the Pasteur's congregation met him when he descended from the diligence, and waved their hats, but as he thanked heaven, did not "jodel."
Love Eternal Henry Rider Haggard 1890
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The Swiss _jodel_ is the best illustration of this in a very exaggerated form.
Critical and Historical Essays Lectures delivered at Columbia University Edward MacDowell 1884
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