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yodle

yodle is the archaic form of yodel.

Meaning of yodel

Verb

yodel (third-person singular simple present yodels, present participle (US) yodeling or (UK) yodelling, simple past and past participle (US) yodeled or (UK) yodelled)

  1. (intransitive, transitive) To sing (a song) in such a way that the voice fluctuates rapidly between the normal chest voice and falsetto.

See all 3 meanings of yodel

Forms of yodle

Verb
third-person singular presentyodles
present participleyodling
past participleyodled
pastyodled
Noun
pluralyodles

Questions about yodle

What is yodle the archaic form of?
Yodle is the archaic form of yodel.

Words near yodle in the dictionary

  1. Yoders
  2. yodh
  3. yodhs
  4. yodization
  5. yodizations
  6. yodle
  7. yodled
  8. yodler
  9. yodlers
  10. yodles
  11. yodless

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Adapted from Wiktionary: yodle (page history and authors); yodel (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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