cackle
cackle
Definition
cackle (kak′əl)
intransitive verb -·led, -·ling
- to make the shrill, broken vocal sounds of a hen
- to laugh or chatter with similar sounds
Etymology: ME cakelen; akin to Du kokkelen, LowG kakkeln < IE base *kak-: of echoic orig.
transitive verb
to utter in a cackling manner
noun
- the act or sound of cackling
- cackling laughter
- idle or silly chatter
cut the cackle
Brit., Informal to stop talking and settle down to serious efforts
cackle
Synonyms
cackle
Usage Examples
Object
- fakement: And this shall troll to pass, if ye will diligently obey the cackling fakement of the Duchess your Gloria.
- homie: Then cackled the dowriest homie ' s serving homies that ministered unto her, There is nishter done for her.
- laughter: Jason heard a cackling laughter and felt pain as he had never felt it before.
- lav: And when she had cackled this lav unto me, I stood trembling.
- witch: Her Madge is not a cringing, cackling fairy tale witch, but a woman whose human dignity has been violated once too often.
- laugh: Her showbiz routine was to crab about her husband, cackle a loud laugh, then move to something timely.
Adjective modifier
- evil: Both pick up the book at the same time, and see who slams it down first with an evil cackle.
- mad: With a mad cackle she asked me to repeat the order " for the till this time dear " .
- maniacal: From the room I could hear the sounds of someone laughing; laughing with a maniacal cackle.
Modifying Another Word
- then: Then cackled the dowriest homie ' s serving homies that ministered unto her, There is nishter done for her.
- not: I will not cackle and threaten to start an unstoppable chain reaction that will split the earth in two.
- maniacally: He cackled maniacally to himself hoping that, at last, two billion readers of his books would be enough for him.
- again: Regina flicked her cigarette ashes to the floor, cackled again, and placed a hand on Greg's leather jacket.
- insanely: Edmund: Sir, the type of women currently favored in France are toothless crones who just cackle insanely.
Noun used with modifier
- ye: Yet ye cackle, Wherein hast thou loved us?
Followed by a transitive particle
- unto: They answered and cackled unto the dowriest homie, True, O dowriest homie.
Preposition: of
- goose: Try a picnic on the banks of the River Tiddy, listen for the cackle of wild geese and walk back via Wheal Honey.
Preposition: with
- glee: Lizza throws her head back and cackles with glee You combine 1 sulfur.
Followed by an intransitive particle
- unto: Now the dowriest homie cackled and cackled unto Daniel, Thy Gloria whom thou servest continually, she will deliver thee.
Particle object:
- homie: They answered and cackled unto the dowriest homie, True, O dowriest homie.
cackle Quotes
Hongry rooster don't cackle w'en he fine a wum.
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