English▸ verb
(yodels, yodeling, yodeled; British yodels, yodelling, yodelled)
[no object] practice a form of singing or calling marked by rapid alternation between the normal voice and falsetto: they had learned how to drop into the lake, yodeling like Tarzan
(as noun yodelling) Swiss floor shows with alpine horn-blowing and yodeling
(as adjective yodelling) a yodeling song.
▸ noun a song, melody, or call delivered by yodeling:
he heard a yodel from below.
– ORIGIN early 19th century : from German jodeln.