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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. To make the shrill cry characteristic of a hen after laying an egg.
  2. v. To laugh or talk in a shrill manner.
  3. v. To utter in cackles: cackled a sarcastic reply.
  4. n. The act or sound of cackling.
  5. n. Shrill laughter.
  6. n. Foolish chatter.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. 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.
  2. To laugh with a broken noise like the cackling of a goose; giggle.
  3. To prate: prattle; tattle; talk in a silly manner.
  4. n. The shrill repeated cry of a goose or hen.
  5. n. Idle talk; silly prattle.
  6. Nautical, to wind right and left alternately: as, to cackle a cable.

Wiktionary

  1. n. The cry of a hen, especially when laying an egg
  2. n. A laugh resembling the cry of a hen.
  3. v. intransitive To laugh with a sound similar to a hen's cry.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. v. To make a sharp, broken noise or cry, as a hen or goose does.
  2. v. To laugh with a broken noise, like the cackling of a hen or a goose; to giggle.
  3. v. To talk in a silly manner; to prattle.
  4. n. The sharp broken noise made by a goose or by a hen that has laid an egg.
  5. n. Idle talk; silly prattle.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. the sound made by a hen after laying an egg
  2. v. talk or utter in a cackling manner
  3. v. emit a loud, unpleasant kind of laughing
  4. n. noisy talk
  5. n. a loud laugh suggestive of a hen's cackle
  6. v. squawk shrilly and loudly, characteristic of hens

Etymologies

  1. Middle English cakelen, probably from Middle Low German kākeln, of imitative origin. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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synonyms (8)

Words with the same meaning

  1. giggle
  1. prattle
  1. clack
  1. check
  1. gabble
  1. gaggle
  1. keckle
  1. laugh

hypernyms (11)

Words that are more generic or abstract

  1. cry
  2. mouth
  1. verbalise
  2. speak
  1. verbalize
  2. utter
  1. talk
  2. laugh
  1. express mirth
  2. express joy
  1. laughter

same context (21)

Words that are found in similar contexts

  1. chuckle
  2. giggle
  3. screech
  4. guffaw
  1. whoop
  2. titter
  3. yell
  4. bellow
  1. cackling
  2. gurgle
  3. peal
  4. hoot
  1. caw
  2. chortle
  3. leer
  4. outcry
  1. gabble
  2. snort
  3. croak
  4. clamor
  1. chirp

rhymes (9)

Words with the same terminal sound

  1. Spackle
  1. crackle
  1. grackle
  1. hackle
  1. jackal
  1. shackle
  1. spackle
  1. tackle
  1. unshackle

reverse dictionary (12)

Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. gaggle
  2. cackle
  1. kakel
  2. kakle
  1. keckle
  2. cake
  1. clack
  2. cank
  1. checkle
  2. keak
  1. le
  2. voice

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