cackle
verb (used without object)
to utter a shrill, broken sound or cry, as of a hen.
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
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Finally, when she has cackled to her heart's content, she goes back to her nest and produces the tiniest imaginable egg.
From Bartholomew Sastrow Being the Memoirs of a German Burgomaster by Bartholomew Sastrow