Thesaurus: cackle
To make a sharp, broken noise or cry, as a hen or goose does.
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Definitions
- v. i. To make a sharp, broken noise or cry, as a hen or goose does.
- v. i. To laugh with a broken noise, like the cackling of a hen or a goose; to giggle.
- v. i. 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.
- n. the sound made by a hen after laying an egg
- n. noisy talk
- n. a loud laugh suggestive of a hen's cackle
- v. talk or utter in a cackling manner
- v. squawk shrilly and loudly, characteristic of hens
- v. make a noise characteristic of a goose
- v. emit a loud, unpleasant kind of laughing