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verb-intransitive. To make the shrill cry characteristic of a hen after laying an egg.

verb-intransitive. To laugh or talk in a shrill manner.

v. To utter in cackles: cackled a sarcastic reply.

n. The act or sound of cackling.

n. Shrill laughter.

n. Foolish chatter.

n. The cry of a hen, especially when laying an egg

n. A laugh resembling the cry of a hen.

v. To laugh with a sound similar to a hen's cry.

verb-intransitive. To make a sharp, broken noise or cry, as a hen or goose does.

verb-intransitive. To laugh with a broken noise, like the cackling of a hen or a goose; to giggle.

verb-intransitive. To talk in a silly manner; to prattle.

n. The sharp broken noise made by a goose or by a hen that has laid an egg.

n. Idle talk; silly prattle.

To utter a noisy succession of thin, shrill, broken notes: specifically used of the cry made by a hen after laying an egg or by a goose when excited or alarmed.

To laugh with a broken noise like the cackling of a goose; giggle.

To prate: prattle; tattle; talk in a silly manner.

n. The shrill repeated cry of a goose or hen.

n. Idle talk; silly prattle.

Nautical, to wind right and left alternately: as, to cackle a cable.

n. the sound made by a hen after laying an egg

v. talk or utter in a cackling manner

v. emit a loud, unpleasant kind of laughing

n. noisy talk

n. a loud laugh suggestive of a hen's cackle

v. squawk shrilly and loudly, characteristic of hens

"* cackle, cackle* "I don't know what you're talking about.""

cackled    cackles    cackling   

cry    mouth    verbalise    speak    verbalize    utter    talk    laugh    express mirth    express joy   

laugh    babble    chatter    cluck   

giggle    prattle    clack    check    gabble    gaggle    keckle    laugh   

Spackle    crackle    grackle    hackle    jackal    shackle    spackle    tackle    unshackle   

chuckle    giggle    screech    guffaw    whoop    titter    yell    bellow    cackling    gurgle