cackle
pronunciation
How to pronounce cackle in British English:
UK [ˈkækl]
How to pronounce cackle in American English:
US [ˈkækəl]
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- Noun:
- the sound made by a hen after laying an egg
- noisy talk
- a loud laugh suggestive of a hen's cackle
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- Verb:
- talk or utter in a cackling manner
- squawk shrilly and loudly, characteristic of hens
- emit a loud, unpleasant kind of laughing
Word Origin
- cackle
- cackle: see cheek
- cackle (v.)
- early 13c., imitative (see cachinnation); perhaps partly based on Middle Dutch kake "jaw." Related: Cackled; cackling. As a noun from 1670s. Cackleberries, slang for "eggs" is first recorded 1880.
Example
- 1. A loud laugh suggestive of a hen 's cackle .
- 2. But he followed that up with a murderous cackle .
- 3. He gave a malicious cackle .
- 4. The old woman gave a loud cackle .
- 5. Never cackle unless you lay .