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cackle Definition

cackle (kakəl)

intransitive verb -·led, -·ling

  1. to make the shrill, broken vocal sounds of a hen
  2. 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

  1. the act or sound of cackling
  2. cackling laughter
  3. idle or silly chatter

cackle Idioms

cut the cackle

Brit., Informal to stop talking and settle down to serious efforts

cackle Synonyms

cackle

v.

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.

—Harris,Joel Chandler

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