KYOODLE verb (kahy-ood-l)

verb
1. to bark or yelp noisily or foolishly; yap.


Quotes

No living thing moved upon it, not even a medicine wolf to kyoodle to the invisible moon.
--*Richard Sale,*The White Buffalo, 1975


But the dogs waved their tails happily and sought out a rabbit and went kyoodling after it.
--*John Steinbeck,*Tortilla Flat, 1935



Origin

Kyoodle began as and still may be an Americanism. The word has no distinguished etymology (except for the vague label Imitative), which exactly fits the verb and also one of its noun meanings: mutt, noisy dog. Some distinguished American authors have used the word, however, including John Steinbeck, John O’Hara, and Sinclair Lewis. Kyoodle entered English in the late 19th century.