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Thesaurus: cackle

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

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  1. v. i. To make a sharp, broken noise or cry, as a hen or goose does.
  2. v. i. To laugh with a broken noise, like the cackling of a hen or a goose; to giggle.
  3. v. i. To talk in a silly manner; to prattle.
  4. n. The sharp broken noise made by a goose or by a hen that has laid an egg.
  5. n. Idle talk; silly prattle.
  6. n. the sound made by a hen after laying an egg
  7. n. noisy talk
  8. n. a loud laugh suggestive of a hen's cackle
  9. v. talk or utter in a cackling manner
  10. v. squawk shrilly and loudly, characteristic of hens
  11. v. make a noise characteristic of a goose
  12. v. emit a loud, unpleasant kind of laughing