Also jodel, yodle, erron. jödel. [f. next.] A melody or musical phrase inarticulately sung with interchange of the ordinary and falsetto voice, as by Swiss and Tyrolese mountaineers. Also transf. any cry resembling this.
1849. Thackeray, Pendennis, lxv. Fanny’s little sisters were taught a particular cry or jödel, which they innocently whooped in the court.
1864. Cornh. Mag., Aug., 230. I heard singing and wild jodels about this dissipated city of Innsbrück.
1883. Anna Bowman Blake, in Harper’s Mag., July, 907/2. As he joined his own vibrant baritone to the Tyrolese song-music, his yodel drowned all other sounds.
1894. Du Maurier, Trilby, I. 22. The British milkman’s yodel, ‘Milk below!’
1919. John Wesley Holloway, From the Desert, 45, ‘The Corn Song,’ 34.
| Yodel ever’ day; | |
| Only le’ me lis’n, | |
| As yo’ sing away. |
Comb. 1874. Miss R. H. Busk, Vall. Tirol, Pref. p. vi. Just as the shriek of the whistle overpowers the Jödel-call.
