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.

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.

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.

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

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 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.""