Definitions for yodels

yodels yo·del

Spelling: [yohd-l]
IPA: /ˈyoʊd l/

Yodels is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 126 anagrams from letters in yodels (delosy).

Definitions for yodels

noun

  1. a song, refrain, etc., so sung.
  2. a call or shout so uttered.

verb (used with or 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.

Origin of yodels

First recorded in 1865-70, yodel is from the German word jodeln

Examples for yodels

It immediately became a case of he who laughs first, lives to yodel.

Suddenly the mountaineers loosed their hold upon him, and waving their caps began to yodel in a transport of joy.

I explored the vicinity of the cave, and risked a yodel or two, but there was no response.

Graham promptly answered: "Yes, silly—she'll wear goatskin—and she'll yodel."

But he did not yodel in the yard or whistle under the window.

We understand that the yodel waistcoat will also be heard this spring.

His business was to appear at unexpected moments and in unsuspected parts of the gardens, to yodel.

The case of yodel, the auctioneer, was even more inscrutable.

His voice broke badly in the yodel and he was jeered by a rude audience.

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

Word Value for yodels
Scrable

9

Words with friends

9

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