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Definition of Cackle

1. Verb. Talk or utter in a cackling manner. "Sam and Sue cackle"; "The women cackled when they saw the movie star step out of the limousine"

2. Noun. The sound made by a hen after laying an egg.

3. Verb. Squawk shrilly and loudly, characteristic of hens.

4. Noun. Noisy talk.

5. Verb. Emit a loud, unpleasant kind of laughing.

6. Noun. A loud laugh suggestive of a hen's cackle.

Definition of Cackle

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

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

Definition of Cackle

1. Noun. The cry of a hen, especially when laying an egg ¹

2. Noun. A laugh resembling the cry of a hen. ¹

3. Verb. (intransitive) To laugh with a sound similar to a hen's cry. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Cackle

1. to make the sound of a hen [v -LED, -LING, -LES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cackle

cacique caciques caciquism caciquisms cacistocracies cacistocracy cack-handed cack up cacked cackel

cackerel cackerels cackhanded cacking cackle (current term) cackle-bladder cackle-bladders cackle bladder cackleberry cackled

cackler cacklers cackles cackling cackly cacks caco- caco-2 cells cacodaemon

Literary usage of Cackle

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Dictionary of English Etymology by Hensleigh Wedgwood (1872)
"A cockling sea is one jerked up into short waves by contrary currents. cackle, to chuck ; coque, an eggshell, shell, cockle, with the dim. coquille, ..."

2. Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present: A Dictionary, Historical and by John Stephen Farmer, William Ernest Henley (1891)
"[From the figurative usage of cackle, to make a noise as a hen after laying an egg, a usage traceable as far back as 1225. ..."

3. In the Child's World: Morning Talks and Stories for Kindergartens, Primary by Emilie Poulsson (1893)
"Poor Mrs. cackle decided that she would go on farther down the lane to look for ... Down the lane went Mrs. cackle, but before she had gone very far she met ..."

4. A Satire Anthology by Carolyn Wells (1905)
"... man, we'll li\ ;l The poor man alone, When he hears the poor moan, Of his morsel a morsel will give, Well-a-day!" Thomas Holcroft. COCKLE V. cackle rI ..."

5. A Satire Anthology by Carolyn Wells (1905)
"The poor man alone, When he hears the poor moan, Of his morsel a morsel will give, Well-a-day!" Thomas Holcroft. COCKLE V. cackle rI ..."

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