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yodel

/yohd-l/US // ˈyoʊd l //UK // (ˈjəʊdəl) //

约德尔,瑜伽

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Definitions

  1. 1

    yo·deled, yo·del·ing, or yo·delled, yo·del·ling.

    • : to sing with frequent changes from the ordinary voice to falsetto and back again, in the manner of Swiss and Tyrolean mountaineers.
    • : to call or shout in a similar fashion.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a song, refrain, etc., so sung.
    • : a call or shout so uttered.

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Examples

  • Because we all grow up singing, and we learn tricks that we like that this singer did or that singer did — you know, a yodel here, a break there.

  • In a minute he'll yodel like the singing cowboys in the movies he loved so much as a kid.

  • I emailed yodel to explain an got a automated reply saying my parcel has been delivered and signed for?

  • From far above came the notes of a merry song; occasionally there was heard a long, echoing yodel, then more singing.

  • Jimmie gave another yodel, louder and longer than the first.

  • Away in the distance coyotes lifted their yodel, half jocular, half mournful, as a maudlin drunkard sings dolefully a merry tune.

  • Then I discovered that there is a trill, a tiny grace note or yodel, at the end of his second note.

  • Jane Abbott turned and looked down, amazed that the mountain girl should have the effrontery to yodel to her.