intransitive verb. To make the shrill cry characteristic of a hen after laying an egg.

intransitive verb. To laugh or talk in a shrill manner.

intransitive verb. To utter in cackles.

noun. The act or sound of cackling.

noun. Shrill laughter.

noun. Foolish chatter.

To utter a noisy succession of thin, shrill, broken notes: specifically used of the cry made by a hen after laying an egg or by a goose when excited or alarmed.

To laugh with a broken noise like the cackling of a goose; giggle.

To prate: prattle; tattle; talk in a silly manner.

Nautical, to wind right and left alternately: as, to cackle a cable.

noun. The shrill repeated cry of a goose or hen.

noun. Idle talk; silly prattle.

intransitive verb. To make a sharp, broken noise or cry, as a hen or goose does.

intransitive verb. To laugh with a broken noise, like the cackling of a hen or a goose; to giggle.

intransitive verb. To talk in a silly manner; to prattle.

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

noun. Idle talk; silly prattle.

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

noun. A laugh resembling the cry of a hen.

verb. To laugh with a sound similar to a hen's cry.

noun. the sound made by a hen after laying an egg

verb. talk or utter in a cackling manner

verb. emit a loud, unpleasant kind of laughing

noun. noisy talk

noun. a loud laugh suggestive of a hen's cackle

verb. squawk shrilly and loudly, characteristic of hens

"* cackle, cackle* "I don't know what you're talking about.""

babble  chatter  cluck  laugh  

cry  express joy  express mirth  laugh  laughter  

Spackle  crackle  grackle  hackle  jackal  

bellow  cackling  caw  chirp  chortle  

Homeric laughter  babble  babblement  bark  bavardage  

cackled  cackles  cackling