Dictionary entry

Yodel

Webster's Dictionary 1913

{ Yo″del (?), Yo″dle (?), } v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p.Yodeled, Yodled; p. pr. & vb. n.Yodeling, Yodling.] [G. jodeln.] To sing in a manner common among the Swiss and Tyrolese mountaineers, by suddenly changing from the head voice, or falsetto, to the chest voice, and the contrary; to warble.