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Cackle

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Noun

1. cackle

the sound made by a hen after laying an egg

2. cackle, chatter, yack, yak, yakety-yak

noisy talk

3. cackle

a loud laugh suggestive of a hen's cackle

Verb

4. cackle

talk or utter in a cackling manner

Example Sentences:
'The women cackled when they saw the movie star step out of the limousine'

5. cackle

squawk shrilly and loudly, characteristic of hens

6. cackle

emit a loud, unpleasant kind of laughing

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Cackle

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verb
1. (intransitive)
(esp of a hen) to squawk with shrill notes
2. (intransitive)
to laugh or chatter raucously
3. (transitive)
to utter in a cackling manner
noun
4. 
the noise or act of cackling
5. 
noisy chatter
6.  cut the cackle

Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers

Cackle

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verb intransitiveWord forms: ˈcackled or ˈcackling
1. 
to make the shrill, broken vocal sounds of a hen
2. 
to laugh or chatter with similar sounds
verb transitive
3. 
to utter in a cackling manner
noun
4. 
the act or sound of cackling
5. 
cackling laughter
6. 
idle or silly chatter

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Cackle

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v. cack·led, cack·ling, cack·les
v.intr.
1. To make the shrill cry characteristic of a hen after laying an egg.
2. To laugh or talk in a shrill manner.
v.tr.
To utter in cackles: cackled a sarcastic reply.
n.
1. The act or sound of cackling.
2. Shrill laughter.
3. Foolish chatter.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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