Sentence:  The yelps and <WSD>kyoodles</WSD> had wandered home or after Rube and his idolators — all except the Widow Steger's dog, a long, strange, German sort of dog with no legs to speak of, a lonesome boyless kyoodle that had to go home early and sleep under the geranium box. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  A loud, meaningless noise; howl or holler.