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Webster 1913 Edition
Cackle
Cac′kle
,Verb.
I.
[
imp. & p. p.
Cackled
(-k’ld)
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Cackling
.] 1.
To make a sharp, broken noise or cry, as a hen or goose does.
When every goose is
cackling
. Shakespeare
2.
To laugh with a broken noise, like the cackling of a hen or a goose; to giggle.
Arbuthnot.
3.
To talk in a silly manner; to prattle.
Johnson.
Cac′kle
,Noun.
1.
The sharp broken noise made by a goose or by a hen that has laid an egg.
By her
cackle
saved the state. Dryden.
2.
Idle talk; silly prattle.
There is a buzz and
cackle
all around regarding the sermon. Thackeray.
Webster 1828 Edition
Cackle
CACKLE
,Verb.
I.
1.
To make a particular noise, as a goose or a hen.2.
To laugh with a broken noise, like the cackling o a goose; to giggle, which is a word from the same root.3.
To prate; to prattle; to tattle; to talk in a silly manner.CACKLE
,Noun.
1.
The broken noise of a goose or hen.2.
Idle talk; silly prattle.Definition 2024
cackle
cackle
English
Noun
cackle (plural cackles)
- The cry of a hen or goose, especially when laying an egg
- A laugh resembling the cry of a hen or goose.
Translations
cry of a hen or goose, especially when laying an egg
laugh resembling the cry of a hen or goose
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Verb
cackle (third-person singular simple present cackles, present participle cackling, simple past and past participle cackled)
- (intransitive) To make a sharp, broken noise or cry, as a hen or goose does.
- Shakespeare
- When every goose is cackling.
- Shakespeare
- (intransitive) To laugh with a broken sound similar to a hen's cry.
- 1918, W. B. Maxwell, chapter 2, in The Mirror and the Lamp:
- She was a fat, round little woman, richly apparelled in velvet and lace, […]; and the way she laughed, cackling like a hen, the way she talked to the waiters and the maid, […]—all these unexpected phenomena impelled one to hysterical mirth, and made one class her with such immortally ludicrous types as Ally Sloper, the Widow Twankey, or Miss Moucher.
- The witch cackled evilly.
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- (intransitive) To talk in a silly manner; to prattle.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Johnson to this entry?)
Synonyms
- See also Wikisaurus:laugh
Translations
to make a sharp, broken noise or cry, as a hen or goose does
to laugh with a sound similar to a hen's cry