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cackle
[ kak-uhl ]
verb (used without object)
- to utter a shrill, broken sound or cry, as of a hen.
- to laugh in a shrill, broken manner.
- to chatter noisily; prattle.
verb (used with object)
- to utter with cackles; express by cackling:
They cackled their disapproval.
noun
- the act or sound of cackling.
- chatter; idle talk.
cackle
/ ˈkækəl /
verb
- intr (esp of a hen) to squawk with shrill notes
- intr to laugh or chatter raucously
- tr to utter in a cackling manner
noun
- the noise or act of cackling
- noisy chatter
- cut the cackle informal.to stop chattering; be quiet
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Derived Forms
- ˈcackler, noun
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Other Words From
- cackler noun
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Word History and Origins
Origin of cackle1
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Word History and Origins
Origin of cackle1
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Example Sentences
For most of the film I was too mortified to actually laugh out loud, but that one got a cackle from me.
Kabakov is the Beckett of the art world, creating silences and divorcing himself from the cackle.
“I am wreaking a double vengeance,” writes Cellini, barely suppressing a cackle.
The latter, fastened by the legs to the rails of the wagons, kept up a deafening cackle.
When she heard a hen cackle she always ran to look for the nest, and one day she discovered one under the fruit-shed.
"Hold your—cackle," cried one, "he is going to sing;" and the whole party had their eyes turned with expectation towards the bird.
Her hard but not unmusical laugh had given place to a grating cackle, and a leer of affected gaiety had replaced the merry eye.
How the young hens would giggle if I did, and how the old ones would cackle!
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