cackle (n.)

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

  2. noisy talk

    [ Syn: yak , yack , yakety-yak , chatter ]

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

    cackle (v.)

  1. talk or utter in a cackling manner; The women cackled when they saw the movie star step out of the limousine'

  2. squawk shrilly and loudly, characteristic of hens

  3. emit a loud, unpleasant kind of laughing

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