cackle
- to utter a shrill, broken sound or cry, as of a hen.
- to laugh in a shrill, broken manner.
- to chatter noisily; prattle.
- to utter with cackles; express by cackling: They cackled their disapproval.
- the act or sound of cackling.
- chatter; idle talk.
Origin of cackle
Related Words for cackle
giggle, guffaw, chortle, quack, cluck, snicker, crow, snigger, gobble, titter, gibber, chuckle, blather, burble, babble, jabberExamples from the Web for cackle
Contemporary Examples of cackle
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.
Historical Examples of cackle
The detective indulged himself in a cackle of sneering merriment.
Within the LawMarvin Dana
And now stop your clatter and go to sleep; I'm tired of hearing you cackle.
The Universal ReciterVarious
The captain looked at him dully; then, understanding, a cackle came from his throat.
Under Arctic IceH.G. Winter
And suddenly, unaccountably, he began to chuckle; he began to cackle noisily.
Once to Every ManLarry Evans
A mingling of honk and cackle, it manifested not excitement so much as curiosity.
Tales of FishesZane Grey
cackle
- (intr) (esp of a hen) to squawk with shrill notes
- (intr) to laugh or chatter raucously
- (tr) to utter in a cackling manner
- the noise or act of cackling
- noisy chatter
- cut the cackle informal to stop chattering; be quiet
Word Origin for cackle
Word Origin and History for cackle
early 13c., imitative (see cachinnation); perhaps partly based on Middle Dutch kake "jaw." Related: Cackled; cackling. As a noun from 1670s. Cackleberries, slang for "eggs" is first recorded 1880.