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cack·le
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ˈkæk
əl
/
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-
uh
l
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verb,
cack·led,
cack·ling,
noun
verb (used without object)
1.
to utter a shrill, broken
sound
or cry, as of a hen.
2.
to laugh in a shrill, broken manner.
3.
to chatter noisily; prattle.
verb (used with object)
4.
to utter with cackles; express by cackling:
They cackled their disapproval.
noun
5.
the act or sound of cackling.
6.
chatter; idle talk.
Origin:
1175–1225;
Middle English
cakelen;
cognate with
Dutch
kakelen,
Low German
kakeln,
Swedish
kackla
Related forms
cack·ler,
noun
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cackle
(ˈkæk
ə
l)
—
vb
1.
(
intr
) (esp of a hen) to squawk with shrill notes
2.
(
intr
) to laugh or chatter raucously
3.
(
tr
) to utter in a cackling manner
—
n
4.
the noise or act of cackling
5.
noisy chatter
6.
informal
cut the cackle
to stop chattering; be quiet
[C13: probably from Middle Low German
kākelen,
of imitative origin]
'cackler
—
n
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 10th Edition
2009 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins
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Word Origin & History
cackle
early 13c., imitative (see
cachinnation
).; perhaps partly based on M.Du. kake "jaw." As a noun, from 1670s. Cackleberries, slang for "eggs" is first recorded 1880.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
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Example sentences
There are times when a
cackle
of demoniac laughter is the sole salvation of
sanity.
It makes a sort of
cackle
, with a series of clacking sounds.
Mingling glee with gloom,
cackle
with shriek, they have predicted the end of
the firm itself.
Listen for a rooster pheasant
cackle
or insects buzzing.
But once in a while, he breaks into a whine, a
cackle
or a yelp.
Its emphasis is on the
cackle
of a witch, the crack of a knock, the silence of the lonely and the guilty.
In early morning, slapping your hat against your leg after a
cackle
can fire a longbeard into heading your way.
Somewhere about this point, the specter of determinism begins once again to flap and
cackle
.
He began to
cackle
, which drew a frown from the sheriff.
Yet tickling has remained little more than a
cackle
-filled curiosity far from the purview of modern science.
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