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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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