cackle
verb (used without object)
to utter a shrill, broken sound or cry, as of a hen.
cackler
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a word derived from
cackle.
Example Sentences
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I had the following story from the bill of an old Spanish hen, an inveterate cackler, who used to fly over the neighbouring fence and wander, with happy, self-communing clucks about my vegetable garden.
From In Macao by Charles A. Gunnison
You old cackler, that's what sticks in your crop yet.
From From the Ranks by Charles King
Certainly the hen is an apt emblem of the "uncessant" sitter, the credulous scratcher, the fussy cackler who produced the "Magnalia."
From The American Spirit in Literature : a chronicle of great interpreters by Bliss Perry
