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Cackle   /kˈækəl/   Listen
noun
Cackle  n.  
1.
The sharp broken noise made by a goose or by a hen that has laid an egg. "By her cackle saved the state."
2.
Idle talk; silly prattle. "There is a buzz and cackle all around regarding the sermon."


verb
Cackle  v. i.  (past & past part. cackled; pres. part. cackling)  
1.
To make a sharp, broken noise or cry, as a hen or goose does. "When every goose is cackling."
2.
To laugh with a broken noise, like the cackling of a hen or a goose; to giggle.
3.
To talk in a silly manner; to prattle.





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"Cackle" Quotes from Famous Books



... he, "that don't interest me at all. What I wants to know when I hear a hen cackle is whether ...
— More Toasts • Marion Dix Mosher
... never, never had she known anything so utterly alien and incomprehensible and unsympathetic as her own beloved Vina. For twenty years the strong, protective governess reared and tended her lamb, her dove, only to see the lamb open a wolf's mouth, to hear the dove utter the wild cackle of a daw or a magpie, a strange sound of derision. At such times Miss Frost's heart went cold within her. She dared not realize. And she chid and checked her ward, restored her to the usual impulsive, affectionate demureness. Then she dismissed the whole matter. It was just an accidental ...
— The Lost Girl • D. H. Lawrence
... cackle of sound recalled them from the thrill of this adventure, and the attenuated and lanky figure, with its ashen, blotchy face that glared at them from the doorway, reminded them that this excursion into space was none ...
— Astounding Stories of Super-Science, December 1930 • Various
... how to proceed if I return not unharmed from York Place? Oh, my lord, though my head is in the wolf's mouth, I was not goose enough to place it there without settling how many carabines should be fired on the wolf, so soon as my dying cackle was heard.—Pshaw, my Lord Duke! you deal with a man of sense and courage, yet you speak to him as a ...
— Peveril of the Peak • Sir Walter Scott
... those which your own small boy might utter. The Indian talks of blood and wounds and death in a commonplace, matter-of-fact way that may startle you. But these things used to be a part of his daily life; and even to-day you may sometimes hear a dried-up, palsied survivor of the ancient wars cackle out his shrill laugh when he tells as a merry jest, a bloodcurdling story of the torture he inflicted on some enemy in the ...
— Blackfoot Lodge Tales • George Bird Grinnell


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